Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far… — 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
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago… — 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
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
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another… — 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
I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the… — 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
In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university… — 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
