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From Quotes by Greg Graffin
- 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…
- It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today when I’m in…
- I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.
- We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
- Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school…
- I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always…
- It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template.…
- You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge…
- Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to…
- It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in…
- 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…
- When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In…
- Faith in your partner, your fellow men, your friends, is very important, because without it there's no mutual component to your relationship, and relationships are…
- Obviously there have been some very poor uses of evolution in the 20th century. Social Darwinism for instance and we point out in the book…
- A lot of lunatics who are going to go commit crimes are held in check because of their sense of morality or because it is…
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