Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Everything comes down to Dollars

We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

All I can say to the others is, 'Look out, we're on our way.

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

Losing composure is pointless.

Ever had a woman say no to you, Dmitri?” “Once.” He turned the corner with a smile that made her want to cup his face, trace those beautiful lips with her own. “I married her.

We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we? - Sandry after the pirate attack