Tony Benn Quotes - Page 6

Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.