If the doors of perception were cleansed, man would see the universe as it is, Infinite.
Self-Glorification is artistic suicide.
Every day above ground is a good day.
Life is chaos, you gotta deal with it.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
To live alone, one must be an animal or a god.
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
I'd rather be dead than cool.
No Hope=No Fear. Base not your joy upon the deeds of others, for what is given can also be taken away.
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
If you are not prepared to deal with reality, you can be sure that reality will deal with you.
There's no I in fuck you.
Are you a name or a number.
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucenation.
We as attackers have the initiative. Visciously, ruthlessly, attack, attack, attack, and when in doubt, attack again.
Can you not see who you are inside
A prisoner to the social system, do you dare to defy
You call yourself a man
I'd say you're a boy
-Wartime Manner
Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I'm bored and old.
What good fortune for those of us in power that people do not think.
You're all a bunch of ignorant fucks.
The harder you work the younger you die.
Teen angst has never had so pivotal a spike as the punk movement. You see the troubled youth on the street, skateboards in hand, self righteous dogma holding them high. Why? Because they have more than just the new NOFX album... they have a reason to live. A code. Anarchy. Sign up with me. I have the order form right here. The death of corporate America and all of the kids more popular than you are, emblazoned with No Fear logos, signed to major record labels, and televised almost live on MTV. Come on, admit it, that's the reason you charged $150 Doc Martins to your father's Master Card... For Anarchy, right? For all of the glory of being more extreme than anyone on your block. That's why you paid $26 at Sam Goody Music for a T-shirt that says "Punk's Not Dead." That'll show the corporate bastards. What next? How about that movement? What have you been doing for the glorious cause of anarchy? Anything? Or have you been smoking up on weekends and scoring beer on Wednesday and waiting. Because when it all comes down, you know you were there on the righteous side of Anarchy. Well, at least that's what it says on your jacket.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
You've got to be willing to die for something or you've lived for nothing.
Functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism.
-Type O Negative
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
-Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
The error so many people are tempted to make is to believe that the eternal values which were in danger of extinction and for which so much blood was spilt and so much suffering endured, could be rescued and preserved once and for all. They are and always will be threatened, if not from the outside, then by our own weaknesses and failures. We are always being told that we live in a hard age, but was there ever a time of absolute ease and serenity?
Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually.
-Jimi Hendrix
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life...
and hold it fixed so that 100 years later, when a stranger looks at it,
it moves again.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-Semisonic
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?
Wars throughout history have been fought for conquest and plunder...
The master class has always declared the wars, the subject class has always fought the battles.
The government keeps us safe. Go back to sleep.
Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast.
Don't mistake lack of talent for genius.
Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Read my lips, No new taxes.
There is nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
Yup, you're a dumbass.
Misery is manifold, the wretchedness of the earth is multiform. Evil is a consequence of good. Either the memories of past bliss are the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origins in the ecstacies which might have been.
In a world full of shit, you're still an asshole to me.
When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint.
When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.
Had I not known, that I was already dead, I would have mourned my loss of life.
Freedom for all the people, Brave and true and strong,
Freedom for all the people, Unless I think you're wrong.
We don't care what you think.
Live long and prosper.
Does not the running paper tiger chase his own tail?
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.
How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.
You're a bullshit fake paper gangster
You aint nothing but an image and a liar
A bullshit fake paper gangster
a punk ass motherfucker
When I rise it will be with the ranks, not from the ranks.
The stupider people think you are, the more suprised they are when you kill them.
I hate intolerant people, and I hate people with too much tolerance. One is full of ignorance, the other is full of shit.
Life is pain. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
Some say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
They said, "To die is glorious". They lied.
People used to play with toys, now the toys play with them
Some say the end is near
Some say we'll see armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this bullshit
If you gaze for long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
There are two ways of fighting, one with laws and the the other with arms. The first is the way of men. The second is the style of beasts. But since very often the the first does not suffice, it is necessary to turn to the second. Therefore a prince must know how to play the beast as well as the man.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. But let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Anger is a gift.
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed
Grey are gonna clear up
And then you're gonna die.
Life is hard dude.
Anytime someone mentions god and war in the same sentence, that person needs help.
Everything is good that comes from the author of nature, everything degenerates in the hands of man.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it.
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
There are many times in battle when commanders think they are lost. They see only their losses and don't know the enemy's.
Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
Nothing makes me feel better about myself than tearing someone else down.
I cringe at love,
To love is to lose,
To sleep is to dream,
That dream is a lie, deciever.
Does anybody remember laughter?
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.
I won't give into the government
They taught us how to kill and now they fucking judge me
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you.
Inner fear is your worst enemy.
Fuck the world
Don't ask me for shit
Everything you get
You got to work hard for it
There's a reason the third world came in third.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did.
- Iggy Pop
You tell me that I make no difference
At least I'm fucking trying
What the fuck have you done?
The problem is, the dancing fools don't even understand that the song is about them.
Anticipation of death is worse than death itself.
Make yourself all honey, and the flies will devour you.
We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population...In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment...We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democritization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better
If you're going to kill yourself, at least take somebody that you hate with you.
What I have in my heart I'll take to my grave.
Fucking with the rich is not only necessary, it's also a hell of a lot of fun.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
A real gangsta ass nigga plays his cards right
A real gangsta ass nigga never runs his fucking mouth
Cause real gangsta ass niggas don't start fights
And niggas always gotta high cap
Showing all his boys how he shot em
But real gangsta ass niggas don't flex nuts
Cause real gangsta ass niggas know they got em
Real gangster ass niggas don't talk much
All ya hear is the black from the gun blast
And real gangster ass niggas don't run for shit
Cause real gangster ass niggas can't run fast
There is no birth of conciousness without pain.
Pray your life was just a dream.
Some emotions are so deeply rooted that only the hideous abuse of an electric guitar and an untutored scream will do to express them.
Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.
When the enemy advances, We retreat.
When he escapes, We harass.
When he retreats, We pursue.
When he is tired, We attack.
When he burns, We put out the fire.
When he loots, We attack.
When he pursues, We hide.
When he retreats, We return.
Respecting your opponents is key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt, and you may miss the strategy behind his moves.
It is well this is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it.
An inquiry isn't blasphemy
Most people enjoy the humiliation of their closest peers.
Who is more foolish, the fool, or the one who follows them?
Those who trumpet their own sorrows are usually most deserving of their agony.
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me.
Our normal waking conciousness...is but one special type of conciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of conciousness entirely different...No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these disregarded. How to regard them is the question- for they are so discontinuous with ordinary conciousness.
It is with words as with sunbeams- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate
To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.
Warning: This CD package contains graphic lyrics and artwork which may be offensive to people who are afraid to think for themselves.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world
These are the pale deaths, which men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home
The prison of time is spherical and without exits.
If this planet were under observation by biologists from another world, I think they would look at us and say, "Here is a species in the mid-stages of self destruction".
These are the darkest of ages, in which the greed and ambition of men is finally equalled with their means of destruction and conquest.
Dropping the oppressor is the only solution.
You know what, Fuck you I'm fed up with you, I'm not as good as you? Fuck no, I'm better than you.
Every species can smell its own extinction. the last ones left won't have a pretty time of it. And in ten years, maybe less, the human race will be a bedtime story for their children,a myth, Nothing more.
Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice that was strong and loud
We'll miss him
He a lot to say,
He had a lot of nothing to say
We'll miss him
It's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw down.
What the fuck can I do, to make myself a man?
What the fuck should I do? Well I'm doing the best that I can.
But I'll never give up my pride, And I'll never surrender my hate.
You on the opposite side. You're the one who made me this way
Ask yourself a question, do you need to conform?
With the brain-washing games that are engaged to restrain now
The power to cure. The power to kill. The power is ours. We use it at will.
Honesty is my only excuse.
Turn the other cheek and I'll break your fucking chin.
Genuis begins where rules end.
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind bars, and the man is outside.
Raise your fists and march around
Just don't take what you need
I'll jail and bury those comitted
And smother the rest in greed
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
In a promethian sense, man is God. But on an even more profound level, man is a beast. This primary contradiction has plagued mankind for millenia. Man is a god, man is a beast. These two aspects of his personality have been waging war with another for centuries; A war whose casualties are seen everywhere and recognized nowhere. But there exists, however a long forgotten place in the soul where God and beast intersect. To go to that place is to witness the death of one world and the birth of another.
Numbers have dehumanized us.
Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam.
Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast.
Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.
Every media trick is employed, to keep the public from filling that void. We set ourselves up for disaster when we believe liars on face value. We give ourselves to those bastards when we settle for thier truths, and we follow Hinkly, Chapman, Oswald, Sirhan, and Ray, patsies and fall guys set up, while invisible men rule the day. The powers that be rely on apathy, and ignorance. To sustain
Give us our bread and bury our dead
And kneel to the cross on the wall
Whether burnt at the stake or drunk at the wake
Just kneel to the cross on the wall
We've original sin, but we might just get in
If we beg to the cross on the wall
It's rattle your sabre and love your neighbours
But kneel to that cross on the wall.
See the roof fall, hear the bells crash
As flesh and bone turn to ash
Tried to conquer the sun with a Christian frost
The corpses' stench beneath the cross
Give them gold and they'll save your soul
And kneel to the cross on the wall
Hail to the boss of the great unwashed
And kneel to the cross on the wall
They wail and weep, the march of the sheep
As they go to the cross on the wall
And it's ever so wrong to dare to be strong
So kneel to the cross on the wall
To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.
There is of course no reason why the new totalitarian states should resemble the old. Government by clubs and firing squads is not merely inhumane, it is demonstrably inefficient and in an age of advanced technology, inefficiency is a sin againt the Holy Ghost. A really efficent totalitarian state would be one in which the all powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to coerced, because they love their servitude...The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refraining from doing. Great is truth but still greater is silence about the truth.
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others, only to lose it over themselves.
It's never to late to say never.