Henry Rollins Quotes
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I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection.
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In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.
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I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds
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I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.
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My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
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When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
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All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
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There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
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People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
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I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
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To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.
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I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
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I beg young people to travel.
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We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.
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I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.
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Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.
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A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
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My feelings for you shame me into silence.
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Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
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In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.
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Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.
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You can still function as a living ruin.