Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn’t had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn’t even exist.”

— Henry Rollins

352. “Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.”

— Henry Rollins

353. “To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger’s tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.”

— Henry Rollins

354. “Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.”

— Henry Rollins

355. “Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.”

— Henry Rollins

356. “America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.”

— Henry Rollins

357. “In the city of Pyongyang, you don’t have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.”

— Henry Rollins

358. “If it’s a man’s world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.”

— Henry Rollins

359. “If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America’s prisons are full of nonviolent offenders – a perfect example of American exceptionalism.”

— Henry Rollins

360. “Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.”

— Henry Rollins

361. “Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.”

— Henry Rollins

362. “I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.”

— Henry Rollins

363. “Don’t go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.”

— Henry Rollins

364. “I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better.”

— Henry Rollins

365. “In the summer of ’84, you just couldn’t escape the Born in the USA record.”

— Henry Rollins

366. “In fact, every place I’ve been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta, parts of Central and South America, I’ve seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.”

— Henry Rollins

367. “There’s no retirement, there’s just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.”

— Henry Rollins

368. “You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.”

— Henry Rollins

369. “Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.”

— Henry Rollins

370. “My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don’t like it, don’t condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.”

— Henry Rollins

371. “There’s nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.”

— Henry Rollins

372. “Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.”

— Henry Rollins

373. “You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.”

— Henry Rollins

374. “I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I’ve spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.”

— Henry Rollins

375. “I’m not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.”

— Henry Rollins

376. “Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental.”

— Henry Rollins

377. “I’ve enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I’ve been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they’re still very beautiful.”

— Henry Rollins

378. “To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.”

— Henry Rollins

379. “The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.”

— Henry Rollins

380. “I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.”

— Henry Rollins

381. “I’m not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing.”

— Henry Rollins

382. “Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.”

— Henry Rollins

383. “A lot of Americans don’t have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don’t want to travel.”

— Henry Rollins

384. “I’m trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.”

— Henry Rollins

385. “The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.”

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386. “If you’re crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you’re going to get some turbulence. But if it’s coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I’m not losing any sleep over it.”

— Henry Rollins

387. “I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.”

— Henry Rollins

388. “Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me – the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.”

— Henry Rollins

389. “The easy solution isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”

— Henry Rollins

390. “Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.”

— Henry Rollins

391. “I’ve been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, ‘Hey, this war is bogus,’ to some guy who’s 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.”

— Henry Rollins

392. “It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.”

— Henry Rollins

393. “It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.”

— Henry Rollins

394. “I think it’s important to have some documentation of the past.”

— Henry Rollins

395. “I can’t remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.”

— Henry Rollins

396. “I’m not into fame. I’m not into making money, outside of financing my books. I’m not into status. My thing is basically about time – not wasting it.”

— Henry Rollins

397. “I’m always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there’s been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, “Music sucks now!” I’ll go, “I don’t think so. Not over at my house.””

— Henry Rollins

398. “I’m pessimistic. I don’t think that justice always gets the right person.”

— Henry Rollins

399. “I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable – I think that is more logical. I don’t feel famous.”

— Henry Rollins

400. “Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.”

— Henry Rollins