Tony Benn Quotes

The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

No lie ever reaches old age.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be an uncommon man—if I can. I seek opportunity, not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

I do everything as honestly as I can. I give all I have to give. But I don't let people get in my way.

I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I think my mom did want to be out there and have a career. She loved working. As soon as we were old enough to feed ourselves, she was out.

I'm an honest person and don't lead my life on other people's terms.

I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.

Nobody can stop me from being what I want to be.

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.

Roman Reigns never asked me for my help, that's not who he is.

There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?

Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

I've always lived my life the way I wanted and been honest with myself and everyone around me.

I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.