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The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming ...

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I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is prob...

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An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

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

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly...

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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference ...

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There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent ...

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I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I s...

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Tony Benn

Former Member of the European Parliament

Born: 1925-04-03

Died: 2014-03-14

Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and diarist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South East and Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 and 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014.More