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• I think if you do have democracy it would transform the world because if the millions of people who die live on a dollar a day, had the vote, they would redistribute the wealth of the world, and the people at the top are not prepared to see that happen.

  Tony Benn

  Thinking, People, Democracy

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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• Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.

  Tony Benn

  Please Me, Old Wounds, Energy

  "Mr Benn delays EEC meeting". "The Times" Newspaper, December 13, 1975.

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• I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.

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  Giving Up, Thinking, People

  Source: think-left.org

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• The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

  Tony Benn

  Moving, Wind, Different

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• The one thing that unites Sunni, Shiites and Kurds is they want the Americans out.

  Tony Benn

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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• Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.

  Tony Benn

  Threatening, Nuclear Weapons, Spread

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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• I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.

  Tony Benn

  Support, Democrat, Bin Laden

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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• If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.

  Tony Benn

  People, Support, President

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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• If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.

  Tony Benn

  School

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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• I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

  Tony Benn

  Peers, Politics, Persistent

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• 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 of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

  Tony Benn

  Queens, Advice, Crowns

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

  Tony Benn

  Important, Politics, Broadcasting

  In Anthony Sampson The New Anatomy of Britain (1971) ch. 24

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• Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

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  Religious, Other Worlds, Politics

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

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  Creativity, Agriculture, Support

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• The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.

  Tony Benn

  Mother, Upset, Foreigners

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• [I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

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  Philosophy, Rome, Laissez Faire

  "Encounter" Magazine, January 1963.

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• An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

  Tony Benn

  Jobs, Mps, Employers

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• The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

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  Party, Radical, Conferences

  "More equality and more democracy". The Times (p. 16), October 1, 1973.

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• She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea

  Tony Benn

  Believe, Ideas, Politics

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• It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously

  Tony Benn

  Party, Taken, Psychology

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

  Tony Benn

  Years, Library, Paper

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• There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

  Tony Benn

  Ideas, Church, Bishops

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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