Tony Benn Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

  Tony Benn

  Money, People, Political

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. 2007.

• I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

  Tony Benn

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. 2007.

• Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

  Tony Benn

  Progress, Fuel, Politics

• We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

  Tony Benn

  Party, Years, Political

• A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.

  Tony Benn

  Differences, Doctrine, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

  Tony Benn

  House, Politics, Politician

  In Observer 4 Feb. 1962

• I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things

  Tony Benn

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  Tony Benn (1990). “The end of an era: diaries, 1980-90”, Vintage

• Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...

  Tony Benn

  Mean, Self, Community

  "The Common Market: Loss of Self-Government". Book by Tony Benn, 2016.

• Making mistakes is how you learn.

  Tony Benn

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Politics

• Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

  Tony Benn

  Kings, Tyrants, Politics

  Tony Benn, Joan Bodington (1974). “Speeches”

• 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!

  Tony Benn

  Father, Believe, House

• Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

  Tony Benn

  Jam, Politics, Tomorrow

• I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free

  Tony Benn

  Ideas, Two, Trying

• There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

  Tony Benn

  Suicide, War, Differences

  "Question Time" (BBC), March 22, 2007.

• The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

  Tony Benn

  Years, Looks, Dachau

  "Onslaught on Powell by Wedgwood Benn". "The Times" Newspaper, June 4, 1970.

• 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

• In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once

  Tony Benn

  Benefits, Politics, Strategy

  Hansard 13 Mar. 1974, col. 197

• I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

  Tony Benn

  Party, Years, Drs

• In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

  Tony Benn

  Believe, Tragedy, Politics

• We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

  Tony Benn

  Change, Politics, Politician

  " 10 of the best Tony Benn quotes - as picked by our readers" by James Walsh, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2014.

• I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

  Tony Benn

  Peers, Politics, Persistent

• If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

  Tony Benn

  Funny, Children, Humor

• 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

• No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

  Tony Benn

  Hands, President, Doe

  Tony Benn, Chris Mullin (1979). “Arguments for socialism”, Jonathan Cape

• I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century. When the euphoria surrounding her departure subsides you will find that in a year or two's time there will not be a Tory who admits ever supporting her. People in the street will say, thank God she's gone

  Tony Benn

  Country, Thinking, Years

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