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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
- Tony Benn
#Bias
#I Am
#Right
#Road
#Strong
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
- Tony Benn
#Capitalism
#Change
#Society
#Values
My filing system is messy but orderly.
- Tony Benn
#Filing
#Messy
#Orderly
#System
Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.
- Tony Benn
#Age
#Breakfast
#Energy
#Morning
#Old Age
Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.
- Tony Benn
#Feel
#Life
#Making Mistakes
#Mistakes
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.
- Tony Benn
#Analysis
#Jesus Christ
#Nothing
#Russia
I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
- Tony Benn
#Believe
#Difficult
#Moment
#Trust
#Will
Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.
- Tony Benn
#Alive
#Children
#I Am
#Me
#Morning
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
- Tony Benn
#Age
#Old Age
#Old
#People
#Something
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
- Tony Benn
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#Difference
#Faith
#Something
#World
I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
- Tony Benn
#Every
#How
#Learn
#Mistake
#Mistakes
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
- Tony Benn
#Broadcasting
#Important
#Left
#Really
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
- Tony Benn
#Diplomacy
#Failure
#Represents
#War
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
- Tony Benn
#Embarrassment
#Life
#Moment
#Pleasure
It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
- Tony Benn
#Find
#Ignore
#Pause
#Progress
#Time
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.
- Tony Benn
#About
#Anything
#Care
#Doing
#Romantic
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