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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
Life
Embarrassment
Moments
Photography
Pleasure
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn
Public
Waste
Years
I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
Tony Benn
Radical
Right
Road
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
Time
Progress
First
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Tony Benn
Change
Society
Values
Capitalism
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
Christ
Nothing
Spain
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Benn
Politicians
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
Tony Benn
Faith
Difference
Doctrine
World
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
Tony Benn
Suffering
Today
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn
War
Failure
Diplomacy