I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner Tony Benn More Quotes by Tony Benn More Quotes From Tony Benn It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps. Tony Benn stampsobviousqueens The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have. Tony Benn combinationboardsenough 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 warlongthinking I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them. Tony Benn childrenpeoplethinking [I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method. Tony Benn laissez-faireromephilosophy I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias. Tony Benn humorstrongfunny 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 crownsqueensadvice Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. Tony Benn britainempiresbritish If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. Tony Benn librarypaperyears Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters. Tony Benn broadcastingpoliticsimportant I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true. Tony Benn mediaresponsibilityclass Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten Tony Benn politicstomorrowjam 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 dachaulooksyears An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee. Tony Benn mpsemployersjobs 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 differentwindmoving She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea Tony Benn politicsbelieveideas 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 Tony Benn psychologypartytaken Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture. Tony Benn agriculturesupportcreativity Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths Tony Benn other-worldspoliticsreligious It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his Tony Benn donenamesjesus
