If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don’t have the freedom to choose. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world….because if you have power you use it to meet the needs… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away.… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work… — 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
If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and… — 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… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If… — 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
