You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn’t mean that you are not held accountable.
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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I’m celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
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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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Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.
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If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
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The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.
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That’s what I’m about — getting engaged. Too many people don’t wade in the mud with the politicians.
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I never met a politician who didn’t want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I’ve got the opportunity to say what I believe in.
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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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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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I’ve had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
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I think that ultimately Trump will lose the election and in the process destroy the Republican party – but then I’m an optimist, ha ha ha! So he might not lose. He might be in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world!
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What happened on September 11 wasn’t the first act of war, it was the most unspeakable act of murder and terrorism. But it was construed by a very small group of people – there is no army out there in the dark waiting to take over America.
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I’m just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society’s aspirations, politically.
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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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