An interview with this viciously aggressive punk band!
OK here' something different – I gave the drummer Adam Zuckert, a quotation and he responded with his thoughts. Cool. I tailored these to some of the ideas (some quotations being anti- and some in concordance) expressed in the band’s lyrics. Seemed better than the same old boring interview. Minimalist answers, but it still says a lot.
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long
and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
-Winston Churchill
Victory? Interesting word actually. It implies war or sport competition on
some level(to me). I don't like this quote. I don't like the word victory,
or what it congers up. Survival is not reliant on victory. This sounds like
rah rah wartime banter.
Our problems are man made; therefore they can be solved by man.
- John F. Kennedy
True.
He who is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone...
- Bible - John 8:7
I'm not religious, but I love the stories and some of the literature. This
quote rules. No one is without faults.
Opportunity can often sway even an honest man.
- Latin Proverb
I guess so.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Probably true. But Napoleon was still short. His favorite wine was red
Burgundy from Chamberton I think?
Everyone believes that what suits him is the right thing to do.
-Goethe
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no.
Am I my brothers keeper?
-Bible - Genesis
Good question. We should try to look out for each other. But most don't.
All progress means war with society.
-George Bernard Shaw
I don't think so.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
- Adlai Stevenson
I don't think so again. My grandfather was a communist. He grew up in
Russia. I think he would say communism feeds, clothes, houses, and gives
jobs to people. I'm not saying it's right, I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm
just saying…
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not
become a monster; And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also
looks into you.
- Nietzsche
The first part is true. You see it all the time. A cop becomes corrupts,
religious leaders who act like promiscuous teens ect.
To be or not to be-that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet
Ahh a confused conscious.
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be
condemned, they therefore do as they like.
-Edward, First Baron Thurlow
Corporations are owned by people in bodies. Some of them just suck.
And that was the soft spot which destroyed what was in many ways an
admirable culture... their citizens glorified their mythology of
“rights”; and lost track of their duties; No nation, so
constituted, can endure.
-Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers
I loved this movie!
Thanks Chris, Adam (I'm the drummer)
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