Tony Benn

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

— Tony Benn

I am a public library

— Tony Benn

My filing system is messy but orderly.

— Tony Benn

Making mistakes is how you learn.

— Tony Benn

An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

— Tony Benn

My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky.

— Tony Benn

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

— Tony Benn

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

— Tony Benn

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

— Tony Benn

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

— Tony Benn

“An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern”

— Tony Benn

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

— Tony Benn

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my…

— Tony Benn

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to…

— Tony Benn

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

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who…

— Tony Benn

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

— Tony Benn

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there,…

— Tony Benn

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

— Tony Benn

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

— Tony Benn

The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all…

— Tony Benn

If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many…

— Tony Benn

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change…

— Tony Benn

It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university…

— Tony Benn

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause…

— Tony Benn

I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and…

— Tony Benn

Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers…

— Tony Benn

I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless…

— Tony Benn

I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and…

— Tony Benn

Christians believe that God created man, and humanists believe that man invented God. But whichever way you look at it, we're brothers…

— Tony Benn

I try not to make political arguments personal. It doesn't help and it switches a lot of people off. The real questions:…

— Tony Benn

I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister…

— Tony Benn

Mandela didn't end Apartheid in South Africa, the poor guy was in jail for 27 years, it was the African people that…

— Tony Benn

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

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far…

— Tony Benn

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they…

— Tony Benn

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

— Tony Benn

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

— Tony Benn

The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

— Tony Benn

The one thing that unites Sunni, Shiites and Kurds is they want the Americans out.

— Tony Benn