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Tony Benn
English
Politician
About the author
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn,
English
Politician
#War
#Diplomacy
#Failure
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
Tony Benn,
English
Politician
#Today
#Suffering
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
Tony Benn,
English
Politician
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
Tony Benn,
English
Politician
#World
#Faith
#Difference
#Doctrine
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Benn,
English
Politician
#Politicians
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.
Tony Benn,
English
Politician
#Nothing
#Christ
#Spain
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Tony Benn,
English
Politician
#Society
#Change
#Values
#Capitalism
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.
Tony Benn,
English
Politician
#Time
#First
#Progress
I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
Tony Benn,
English
Politician
#Right
#Road
#Radical
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn,
English
Politician
#Public
#Years
#Waste
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,
English
Politician
#Life
#Photography
#Pleasure
#Embarrassment
#Moments