Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I’m not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing.
BILLY BRAGGPart of the problem with some elements of the European debate is that they hanker for the days when we were a great power. Those days are gone, and they went a long time ago.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you’re waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
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War what is it good for? It’s good for business.
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Just because you’re gay, I won’t turn you away. If you stick around, I’m sure we can find some common ground.
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn’t seem to come with them.
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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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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
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Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.
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Baptists burn more slowly.
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We’ve heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh.
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I’m celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
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It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street – which Im also in favour of.
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A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
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