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"I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it."

Ian MacKaye on Society

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  • "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

  • "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

    Robert A. Heinlein on Society

  • "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

    Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

  • "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

  • "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Ian MacKaye

  • "Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money."

  • "I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made."

  • "With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music."

  • "I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow."

  • "I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it."

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