Jello Biafra Quotes

Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The New World Order has a dying empire odor and changing the channel ain't going to make this go away.

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

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

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.

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

I am an anarchist in my personal life. I try to live my life in a way that I don't need cops or baby-sitters to keep me from infringing on others. But I don't feel we have evolved far enough as a species to make anarchy work in society itself. We still need government to transfer the wealth from those who have too much to those who have too little, to make sure important projects get done, and keep territorial humans from screwing over and killing each other.

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

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

Don't hate the media, become the media.

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

I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin.

A hairstyle's not a lifestyle.

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.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

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

As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Bush in the White House, many people die, and the rest of us are threatened. I just didn't think it would happen quite so quickly. The so-called USA Patriot Act, and the announcement of trying people in military tribunals if Bush or Rumsfeld's or Ashcroft's people think they somehow qualify as terrorists, basically, this is McCarthyism run amok.

What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.