Top 934 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Rollins
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.
Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.
Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
My motto is, 'Never quit.'
There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.
I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.
If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.
I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.
I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.
I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.
When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.
Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.
I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.
Change is hard, but change is good.
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.
With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.
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