Frankie Boyle Live (2008)
Angella Johnson's obituary to Linda, pages 38–39 of The Mail on Sunday, 5th March 2006.
“Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.”
Source: Half Moon Investigations
Know Your Enemy.
Song lyrics, Rage Against the Machine (1992)
“I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge.”
As quoted in Psychic News # 4001 (18 April 2009)
Context: I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.
Revolution (2014)
Context: For me, it’s standard. I don’t feel irresponsible for telling kids not to vote; I feel like I deserve a Blue Peter badge for not telling them to riot. For not telling them that they are entitled to destroy the cathedrals of tyranny erected to mock them in the heart of their community. That they should rise up and destroy the system that imprisons them, ignores them, condemns and maligns them. By any means necessary.' I might also note that I think it unlikely that people aren’t voting because I told them not to; it is more likely that they’re not voting because they are subject to the same conditions that led me not to vote.
“We're no longer officially a superpower. Please turn in your badges.”
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (April 20, 2009)
“I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal.”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 316
“Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 927.
Context: Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master.
