--- title: "6 Labour party Quotes By Tony Benn" description: "6 Labour party quotes by Tony Benn. Plus more from Tony Benn and more Labour party sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/tony-benn-2543_drs_i-did-not-enter-the-labour-party-47-year_863797.png" --- > [I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-did-not-enter-the-labour-party-47-years-ago-to-have-our-manifesto/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/tony-benn-2543_drs_i-did-not-enter-the-labour-party-47-year_863797.png) > [I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-ve-been-a-member-of-the-labour-party-sixty-five-years-and-i-remain/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/tony-benn-2543_campaigning_i-ve-been-a-member-of-the-labour-party-s_1242244.png) > [It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/it-would-be-as-unthinkable-to-try-to-construct-the-labour-party/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/tony-benn-2543_anthropology_it-would-be-as-unthinkable-to-try-to-con_1770361.jpg) > [I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-think-the-truth-is-that-the-labour-party-isn-t-believed-any-more/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/tony-benn-2543_alternatives_i-think-the-truth-is-that-the-labour-par_1788176.jpg) > [The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/the-labour-party-has-never-been-a-socialist-party-although-there-have/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d5/tony-benn-2543_bits_the-labour-party-has-never-been-a-social_2043188.png) > [When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/when-blair-was-elected-leader-of-the-labour-party-he-said-new-labour/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bf/tony-benn-2543_europe_when-blair-was-elected-leader-of-the-lab_2205882.jpg) ## Other authors on Labour party - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-johann-lamont-50764.jpg) Johann Lamont 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labour-party/johann-lamont/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tony-blair-91771.jpg) Tony Blair 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labour-party/tony-blair/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-chuka-umunna-24138.jpg) Chuka Umunna 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labour-party/chuka-umunna/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-ron-davies-80947.jpg) Ron Davies 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labour-party/ron-davies/) - [Jess Phillips 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labour-party/jess-phillips/) - [Jeremy Corbyn 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labour-party/jeremy-corbyn/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-blunkett-27250.jpg) David Blunkett 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labour-party/david-blunkett/) - [John McDonnell 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labour-party/john-mcdonnell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-harriet-harman-40568.jpg) Harriet Harman 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labour-party/harriet-harman/) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labour-party/tony-benn/#itemlist", "name": "6 Labour party Quotes By Tony Benn", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tony Benn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-did-not-enter-the-labour-party-47-years-ago-to-have-our-manifesto/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/tony-benn-2543_drs_i-did-not-enter-the-labour-party-47-year_863797.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/tony-benn-2543_drs_i-did-not-enter-the-labour-party-47-year_863797.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/tony-benn-2543_drs_i-did-not-enter-the-labour-party-47-year_863797.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr…” — Tony Benn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tony Benn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-ve-been-a-member-of-the-labour-party-sixty-five-years-and-i-remain/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/tony-benn-2543_campaigning_i-ve-been-a-member-of-the-labour-party-s_1242244.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/tony-benn-2543_campaigning_i-ve-been-a-member-of-the-labour-party-s_1242244.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/tony-benn-2543_campaigning_i-ve-been-a-member-of-the-labour-party-s_1242244.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about…” — Tony Benn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tony Benn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/it-would-be-as-unthinkable-to-try-to-construct-the-labour-party/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/tony-benn-2543_anthropology_it-would-be-as-unthinkable-to-try-to-con_1770361.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/tony-benn-2543_anthropology_it-would-be-as-unthinkable-to-try-to-con_1770361.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/tony-benn-2543_anthropology_it-would-be-as-unthinkable-to-try-to-con_1770361.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish…” — Tony Benn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. 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