People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them. — 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
Mandela didn't end Apartheid in South Africa, the poor guy was in jail for 27 years, it was the African people that… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia. — 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
I was radicalised by being a minister. That's when I saw how the system really worked. And that is not a very… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think if you do have democracy it would transform the world because if the millions of people who die live on… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people. — 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
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the… — 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
I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft — 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
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 Image
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 Image
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them. — 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 if the… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
