Zitat des Tages von Tony Benn:
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
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.
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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.
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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.
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
My filing system is messy but orderly.
I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.
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.
