183 Quotes by Tony Benn

I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft.

I don’t want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths.

The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale.

I was stunned with outrage.

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.

The Prime Minister keeps me on around here because I make him look good.

It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.