Quotes of the Moment

Just a few of our quotes of the moment that we've used and abused on this site and in the fanzine over the years, please mail in suggestions for future words of wisdom here…

"There will be no passage of evil through these isles without a proper, good struggle. This island has always been a melting pot and personally I am 100% mongrel in the great dog stew of history. Bona fide scouse, London Irish, jew Geordie BiloRussian. Closed borders are like closed minds. What of humanity's horizons? How infinite are they or how barricaded are they? Racism is upon us and let us not forget it is still within living memory that six million people died in gas chambers because of a hateful ideology." Pete Doherty, talking about the BNP, on his release from jail

"If you want a rainbow, you have to put up with a lot of rain... " Nicky Wire (quoting Dolly Parton)

"A dictionary means nothing unless you listen to words" Richey Edwards

It's not so much staying alive as staying human that's important - Fight Club

Bees have quite a model community, for they respect their queen and kill their unemployed Lord Baden Powell

It's better to live on our feet than die on our knees - The Redskins

The Mass of Men Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation - Thoreau

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. - Gandhi

The Tigers of Wrath are Wiser than the Horses of Instruction - William Blake

Every man dies. Not every man really lives - Braveheart

Stoned in Obedience - Manic Street Preachers

I'm sick of being nobody, I'm sick of coming last - The Dawn Parade

A Revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth fighting for - V is for Vendetta

There's no fun stacking shelves, music you are my world - Johnny Panic

"Red Nose Day is a bullying smugfest for a nation of cretins" - Rod Liddle

To be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you just like everybody else - is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight...and to never stop fighting - e.e. cummings

My religion stops with St Jude, the patron Saint of bleeding hopelessness - Johnny Was

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. - Henry S. Haskins

If winter comes, can spring be far behind - PB Shelley

Feel alienated? Watch the news, a mad, wicked world. Do you really want to belong? Feel positive about your alienation - Stay beautiful! - Patrick Jones

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