Tony Benn Quotes

"Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Suffering, Today)

"Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters."
- Tony Benn

"A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Faith, Difference, Doctrine, World)

"The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Politicians)

"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."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Christ, Nothing, Spain)

"We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Change, Society, Values, Capitalism)

"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."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Time, Progress, First)

"I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Radical, Right, Road)

"If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Public, Waste, Years)

"Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Life, Embarrassment, Moments, Photography, Pleasure)