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Baptists burn more slowly.
A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.
If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
War what is it good for? It's good for business.
An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom.
I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.
I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.
You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.
A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
If we accuse Trump of being a liar, he won't just say 'I never said that' or just ignore it and go on to the next thing.
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.
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
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.
What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.
Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.
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.
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.
The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.
By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
Today, rather than talk in terms of ideology or ideas like socialism, I think more important issues to discuss are things like compassion and accountability.
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.
I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.
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.
If we think we're a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let's commit ourselves and involve ourselves with our European partners.
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.
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.
So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.
It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.
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.
I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away