183 Quotes by Tony Benn

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard.

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

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.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.