Tony Benn Quotes

• There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

  Tony Benn

  Victory, Battle, Finals

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• Si alguna vez la democracia se ve amenazada, no será por grupos revolucionarios que quemen oficinas gubernamentales y ocupen las sedes de emisoras y periódicos de todo el mundo. Vendrá del desencanto, el cinismo y la desesperación causados por la constatación de que el Nuevo Orden Mundial significa que todos debemos ser administrados y no representados.

  Tony Benn

  Mean, Order, Government

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• Si podemos encontrar el dinero para matar a la gente, podemos encontrar el dinero para ayudar a la gente.

  Tony Benn

  Dinero, Gente, Política

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

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

  Tony Benn

  Pensar, Dos, Personas

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

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• Si uno se encuentra con una persona poderosa -Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin o Bill Gates- le hace cinco preguntas: "¿Qué poder tienes? ¿De dónde lo has sacado? ¿En interés de quién lo ejerce? ¿A quién debes rendir cuentas? ¿Y cómo podemos librarnos de ti?

  Tony Benn

  Exercise, Power, Accountability

  Members in the Commons Hansard Debates, publications.parliament.uk. March 22, 2001.

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• When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.

  Tony Benn

  Change, Government, Europe

  "Tony Benn: His views on socialism, Europe, war and writing", www.bbc.co.uk. March 14, 2014.

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• The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

  Tony Benn

  Government, Way, Treats

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• An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

  Tony Benn

  Healthy, Educated, Harder

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

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• It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.

  Tony Benn

  Personas, Política, Democracia

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• There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.

  Tony Benn

  Law, People, May

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• The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

  Tony Benn

  Christian, Party, Church

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• Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.

  Tony Benn

  Fighting, Trying, Locks

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• The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.

  Tony Benn

  Strong, Government, Ideas

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• People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.

  Tony Benn

  Real, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, 2007.

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• Después de la guerra, la gente decía: 'Si se puede planificar la guerra, ¿por qué no se puede planificar la paz? Cuando tenía 17 años, recibí una carta del gobierno que decía: 'Estimado Sr. Benn, ¿se presentará cuando tenga 17 años y medio? Le daremos comida gratis, ropa gratis, formación gratis, alojamiento gratis, y dos chelines, diez peniques al día para matar alemanes'. La gente decía, bueno, si puedes tener pleno empleo para matar gente, ¿por qué en nombre de Dios no puedes tener pleno empleo y buenas escuelas, buenos hospitales, buenas casas?

  Tony Benn

  War, School, Names

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• I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces

  Tony Benn

  Views, Political, Liberty

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• I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

  Tony Benn

  Thinking, People, Crafts

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• The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

  Tony Benn

  Party, Enemy, Democracy

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• Si se destruye la democracia en Gran Bretaña, no serán los comunistas, los trotskistas o los subversivos, sino esta Cámara la que la tiró por la borda. No podemos ceder los derechos que se nos han confiado. Incluso si estoy de acuerdo con todo lo que se propone, no puedo renunciar a los poderes que me han sido prestados durante cinco años por el pueblo de Chesterfield. Simplemente no podría hacerlo. Sería un robo de los derechos públicos.

  Tony Benn

  Rights, Hands, Years

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons during a debate on the Treaty of Maastricht, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 20, 1991.

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• Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is

  Tony Benn

  Team, Mean, Essence

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• The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

  Tony Benn

  Media, Essentials, One Thing

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• People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

  Tony Benn

  Creativity, Ambition, Order

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• I think democracy is not a destination. I don't think socialism is a railway station and if we catch the right train with the right driver, we'll get there. I think it's a way of thinking about things and every generation has to do it again.

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  Thinking, Democracy, Socialism

  Fuente: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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• 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

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• When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

  Tony Benn

  Party, Leader, Political

  Fuente: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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