Tony Benn Quotes

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

I do believe that if millions of people do stand up and fight back, we can stop Donald Trump from doing some really awful things.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

We gotta ditch conservatism and people that believe it, we gotta move on. Otherwise, if we don't, we're just delaying our nightmare, postponing the nightmare. That's Ford O'Connell.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.