Tony Benn

An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

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.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

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.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.