John Lydon Quotes - Page 2

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.

Judge not others unless you're prepared to be judged!

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

Some of us are born big-minded with small penises. Others have big penises and small-minded.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

For me, the anarchy movement is hilarious. It's all under .org, which is of course government sponsored websites, and then they're all wearing corporate clothing from the Dr.Martin's to the back sacks and the cell phones, they're all flying around on corporate jets and using corporate highways. Very anarchistic!

I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree with not any one single thing they stand for. That's the irony in the joy of being a human being in that we don't resent each other for our different thought processes, but anything that offers the attitude to me of "I'm going to stop you because that offends my religion", then I'm going to stop them. So I have one more note against that ideology, and the idea of a real estate agent running the universe is just not acceptable.

Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.

Only the fakes survive.

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.