Europe Quotes by Tony Benn

10 Europe quotes by Tony Benn

Tony Benn’s passionate voice on European solidarity and social justice shines through these ten brief statements, giving a concise glimpse of his idealistic vision.

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America is now the dominant force and the only countervailing force is Europe.

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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

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The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

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I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In…

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I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get…

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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the…

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People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and…

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The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that,…

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

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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…

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Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

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

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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

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You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a…

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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…

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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

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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…

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Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.

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No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her…

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Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at…

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