Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.
BILLY BRAGGWhat corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn’t mean that you are not held accountable.
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Baptists burn more slowly.
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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I’ve some news for you, we’re here to defend wealth.
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Don’t saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
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The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you’re an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
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At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society.
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Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
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If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they’re much more conducive to any ideas I might have, whether they’re about relationships or politics. The most interesting songs, I think, are the ones where the two overlap.
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I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren’t very political, at all.
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I’d like to think that in a generation or two we’ll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.
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Certainly, the international image of the United States today is a lot less positive than 10 years ago. And that really shouldn’t be, because you have been the victims of this awful terrorist attack, and I think America deserves the sympathy of the world.
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The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
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