Last week I knocked out a post called 10 Quality Quotes From 10 Quality Folks and I must admit I enjoyed doing it. I also learned some pleasing info nuggets along the way so I thought I’d bang out a part deux.
All I’m aiming to do here is write a few lines about five legendary characters and put up some of their best quotes. It’s not rocket science, but I hope you like it.
1) Tony Benn
“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people”
Tony Benn, as I’m sure you’ve read, died last week. He was a man of rugged intent that wasn’t afraid to stick his oar in the deep end and swill it around. He gave up a hereditary peerage so that he could stay in the House of Commons and continue his political path. Something you may no know is that in October 2003, he was a guest of British Airways on the last scheduled Concorde flight from New York to London.
“There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.”
He said this of the Iraq and Afghanistan war – “If you are invaded you have a right to self-defence, and this idea that people in Iraq and Afghanistan who are resisting the invasion are militant Muslim extremists is a complete bloody lie. I joined Dad’s Army when I was sixteen, and if the Germans had arrived, I tell you, I could use a bayonet, a rifle, a revolver, and if I’d seen a German officer having a meal I’d have tossed a grenade through the window. Would I have been a freedom fighter or a terrorist?”
Legend.
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