Tony Benn
Politician
1925-04-03
Quotes by Tony Benn
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An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern
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There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern
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There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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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.
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I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.
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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.
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The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.
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I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.
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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and he says, 'I'm not a dentist myself, but my father was a dentist and his father before him. Now, open wide!'
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