Tony Benn

Notable Quotes



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

From Tony Benn

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

From 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.

From 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.

From Tony Benn

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

From 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.

From Tony Benn

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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

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

From Tony Benn

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