Tony Benn Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter from the government saying, 'Dear Mr. Benn, will you turn up when you're 17 1/2? We'll give you free food, free clothes, free training, free accommodation, and two shillings, ten pence a day to just kill Germans.' People said, well, if you can have full employment to kill people, why in God's name couldn't you have full employment and good schools, good hospitals, good houses?

  Tony Benn

  War, School, Names

• The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.

  Tony Benn

  War, Granddaughter, World

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

• I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.

  Tony Benn

  War, Giving, Office

  Source: think-left.org

• 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.

• All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

  Tony Benn

  War, Failure, Diplomats

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. February 28, 1991.

• I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand

  Tony Benn

  War, Thinking, Long

• The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

  Tony Benn

  War, Thinking, Support

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

• I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

  Tony Benn

  War, Thinking, Week

  Source: designermagazine.tripod.com

• Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

  Tony Benn

  War, Thinking, Iraq

• We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.

  Tony Benn

  War, July, Play

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. October 23, 2000.

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