Tony Benn

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[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.
- Tony Benn
Collection: Philosophy
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An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.
- Tony Benn
Collection: Jobs
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The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.
- Tony Benn
Collection: Party
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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
- Tony Benn
Collection: Believe
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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
Collection: Party
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There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.
- Tony Benn
Collection: Ideas
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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
Collection: Strong