Best Tony Benn Quotes
- An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. Confident
- 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 poor in… Always Say
- I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world….because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and… Community
- Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in… Action
- Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside… Allowed
- The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much. Foreigner
- I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn. Every Mistake
- The Tory party is the enemy of democracy. Democracy
- The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to… All
- I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and he says, 'I'm… Believe
- People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the… Abdicated
- I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do. Alzheimer
- There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. Antiwar
- We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed… Bombers
- I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner Commoner
- If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the… Advice
- Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten Eaten
- The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and… Ago
- I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second… Action
- The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it Change
- Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation Britain
- In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once Ahead
- We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled… Advocacy
- No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands.… American
- It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in… Blame