Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die. — Tony Benn Copy Share
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part… — Tony Benn Copy Share
People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. — Tony Benn Copy Share
You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture. — Tony Benn Copy Share
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. — Tony Benn Copy Share
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them. — Tony Benn Copy Share
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination. — Tony Benn Copy Share
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at… — Tony Benn Copy Share
![“We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.” quote by Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9a5/tony-benn-2543_bankruptcy_we-have-been-in-recess-since-july-and-du_837447.png)
