All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh).

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are, The second greatest is being happy with what you find.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.