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> [There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the first time at the age of 76 there was a lot of grown men, including me, wept buckets.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/there-s-people-on-the-left-who-say-the-ballot-box-is-a-waste-of-time/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

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> [It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/it-is-not-surprising-that-more-and-more-people-are-coming-to-the/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

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## More by Tony Benn

> [Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/experience-is-the-only-real-teacher-and-if-you-keep-a-diary-you-get/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/someone-comes-every-morning-at-nine-o-clock-to-see-if-i-am-still/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/middle-class-labour-leaders-are-recaptured-by-the-establishment-when/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/change-from-below-the-formulation-of-demands-from-the-populace-to-end/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/people-would-do-well-to-ask-themselves-how-many-of-their-ambitions/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/most-things-in-life-are-moments-of-pleasure-and-a-lifetime-of/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/you-have-to-try-to-build-support-around-causes-it-is-uniting-to/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/normally-people-give-up-parliament-because-they-want-to-do-more/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/food-movement-organic-food-stores-supplies-health-food-products-and/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/we-are-not-just-here-to-manage-capitalism-but-to-change-society-and/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-think-there-are-two-ways-in-which-people-are-controlled-first-of/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/people-in-debt-become-hopeless-and-hopeless-people-don-t-vote-they/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/workers-are-not-going-to-be-fobbed-off-with-a-few-shares-or-by-a/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/no-medieval-monarch-in-the-whole-of-british-history-ever-had-such/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

> [Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/having-served-in-eleven-parliaments-it-would-be-difficult-to-describe/)

[Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/)

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