Tony Benn
Former Member of the European Parliament
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, originally known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, but later as Tony Benn, was a British politician, writer, and diarist. Wikipedia
Born: April 3, 1925, Marylebone, United Kingdom
Died: March 14, 2014, London, United Kingdom
Previous office: Member of the European Parliament (1950–1960)
Spouse: Caroline Benn (m. 1949–2000)
QUOTES
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
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.
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Whaddaya Say?