Tony Benn Quotes

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

There can be no socialism without democracy.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Democracy or Anti-Democracy

Democracy takes time. Dictatorship is quicker, but too many people get shot.

Two great parties are forming in all nations. For one there is a right of government to be exercised by one or several persons over the mass of the people .... This is opposed by the new system which admits no right of government except that arising from the free consent of those who submit to it.

What is the difference between democracy and democratic socialism? The same as between a chair and an electric chair.

Democracy is like a street car. You get off when you reach your destination.

If democracy is finished, all is lost.

I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.