#pol

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

#diplomacy #even #facts #fine #international

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bob #contemporary #country #dylan #end

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#america #around #comes #even #guthrie

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#few #i #little #out #political

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 Bragg

#batting #because #further #i #labour

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#i #political #songwriter #theory

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. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bit #go #into #like #love

At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#constitution #european #growth #implementing #level

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#constitution #detriment #does #europe #innovation

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#commended #diseases #efficient #electric #electric light