A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
Tony Benn
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
Tony Benn
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
Tony Benn
I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
Tony Benn
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn
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
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
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Benn
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
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Tony Benn
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