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1. "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
2. "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
3. "We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values." ~ Tony Benn
4. "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." ~ Tony Benn
5. "I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn." ~ Tony Benn
6. "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
7. "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." ~ Tony Benn
8. "Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence." ~ Tony Benn
9. "You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that." ~ Tony Benn
10. "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." ~ Tony Benn
11. "I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias." ~ Tony Benn
12. "The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate." ~ Tony Benn
13. "If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library." ~ Tony Benn
14. "Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters." ~ Tony Benn
15. "I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment." ~ Tony Benn
16. "I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them." ~ Tony Benn
17. "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

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