Billy Bragg on assumption
Billy Bragg35 quotes · See all“Money maketh man a tory, don’t fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea”
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War what is it good for? It’s good for business.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg Just because you’re gay, I won’t turn you away. If you stick around, I’m sure we can find some common ground.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg 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.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg I’m still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I’m much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that’s because they’ve moved, not me.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg All the things about ‘the ugly American’ that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it’s all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I’ve some news for you, we’re here to defend wealth.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg I’m celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
Billy BraggBilly Bragg You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn’t mean that you are not held accountable.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg You can experience a download, but you can’t download an experience.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg 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.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg 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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The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to– ironically-fait h!
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne LamottAnne Lamott As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.
Paramahansa YoganandaParamahansa Yogananda The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.
Georg CantorGeorg Cantor we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
Brennan ManningBrennan Manning Never assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private place and speak with Him.
Gordon B. HinckleyGordon B. Hinckley
