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Tony Benn
April 3, 1925 -
Nationality: English
Category: Politician
Subcategory: English Politician

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

   

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

   

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

   

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 can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

   

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

   

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

   

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

   

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

   

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

   

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.

   

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

   

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