Quotes by Tony Benn

“There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.”

“An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern”

“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.”

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

“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.”

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

“Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had great teachers... It's best to really study your technique as much as you possibly can so you can ...”

“I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.”

“I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was ...”

“Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off.”

“I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world, Cary Grant, and the greatest performer in the world, Fred Astaire, and Johnny Carson, one after ...”

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

“I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.”

“The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.”

“I must tell the House quite frankly that if I were confronted with a Japanese at this present moment and were asked to tell him that I believed that he was wrong in the treatment of those British p...”

“With inherited liberal principles, I feel that the free movement of all people is a good thing and one to be encouraged. ... The Declaration of Human Rights has for one of its Articles the right of...”

“The stars were just out and the crowd were laughing and joking but underneath it all was the tragedy of 6 million dead in the gas chambers and the miracle of a home for Jews after 1,900 years of po...”

“It is we, on this side, who object to dreams of empire, because we think in terms of free association and we believe that the empire that was built up was based on force and domination by this coun...”

“There can be no greater friend of Israel in this House than I am. I say that quite sincerely. I have pressed that Israel should have arms in the present situation. I believe that if ever there was ...”

“[T]he Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez-faire as its philosophy and chooses Bureaucracy as its administrative method will stultify effective national economic planning without creating the ne...”