Tony Benn Quotes

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• It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you…
• The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
• All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
• Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
• Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
• If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
• Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
• I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
• The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
• When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
• Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
• It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able…
• The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church…
• Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.
• When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote…
• The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.
• Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you…
• Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and…
• Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money…
• When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church…

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