John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes

All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

John Joseph Lydon

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• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Capitalism
  • Fascism
  • Plus

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Down

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.

  

  Laila Ali
  • World
  • Professional
  • Commitment

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • American
  • Education
  • Recess

• Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Children
  • Education
  • Independent

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Important
  • Age
  • Society

• Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Good
  • Society
  • Marriage

• Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Different
  • Quality

• In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Society
  • Free

• Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Society
  • Government
  • End

• I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

  

  David Walton
  • Movie
  • Society

• 'Homosexuality and lesbianism, like divorce, breed a society of single parents which gives rise to a generation of bastards. And in the context of much poverty and lack of education, this further produces an ill-bred generation of hooligans, portending much terror to the peace and stability of the society.'

  

  Peter Akinola
  • Parents
  • Society
  • Education

• I can’t comment on Soundgarden because I know them personally and I really like them a lot, but I have strong feelings towards Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains and bands like that. They’re obviously just corporate puppets that are just trying to jump on the alternative bandwagon - and we are being lumped into that category.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Jump

• I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Money

• Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

  

  David Naughton
  • Theatre

• All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Society
  • Education
  • Professional