[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.

Terry Eagleton

Tag: politics capitalism revolution football soccer social-change marxism oprah 2010 deepwater-horizon-oil-spill 2010-fifa-world-cup bolsheviks british-petroleum conformists david-beckham liverpool-fc opium-of-the-people tories

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Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

Oliver Stone

Tag: films subconscious conformists non-conformists

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We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels

Bill Maher

Tag: politics conformists

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