Greg Graffin Quotes
We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.
PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.
Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.
I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.
A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.
We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.
For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.
It's extremely hard to get rid of any population. When they say polio is essentially wiped out, it's not. If we let up on the vaccinations, it will make a come back.
Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.
Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.
I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.
People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.
....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.
There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of a skeptical a**hole. But not about vaccines, that's just not one of them.
I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.
Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.
Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.
