Skip to content

Bits Quote by Tony Benn

“The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.” quote by Tony Benn — Download Open image

“The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Bits Christian Christianity Church Church of england England Labour Labour party Party Socialist Socialist party

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…

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…

Image

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

Image

Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.

Image

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Image

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

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…

Image

Explore all 162 Tony Benn quotes

More Bits quotes

Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him…

David Kirschner

Image

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit…

Image

I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled…

Image

The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.…

Image

If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small…

Image

Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds…

Image

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

Steven Morrissey

Image

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Louise Fitzhugh

Image

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong…

Image

I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.

Wentworth Miller

Image

We, as pop stars, are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit…

Roger Meddows Taylor

Image

In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm…

Image

Browse all 5,683 Bits quotes