Giving Quotes by Tony Benn

8 Giving quotes by Tony Benn

Tony Benn’s remarks on giving carry his characteristic conviction, linking personal generosity to broader social responsibility. These eight lines provide a focused, thought‑provoking glimpse.

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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…

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I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to…

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After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I…

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The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without…

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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…

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If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away.…

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Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If…

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I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, 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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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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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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