Home / Quotes / Quote by Malcolm Mclaren

Quote by Malcolm Mclaren

“Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.”

Quote by Malcolm Mclaren

Author

Malcolm Mclaren

Malcolm McLaren, born on January 22, 1946 in London, England, was a musician, fashion designer, and record producer. He is best known for his role in the punk rock movement, serving as the manager of the band Sex Pistols and influencing 1980s pop culture. more

You May Also Like

“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”

Self Choices Freedom Liberty Power Democracy Intellectual Agents Metaphysics

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.”

Ifs Christian Religion House Tree Promise Jew Woods Chosen Guests House Guests

Author:Karl Barth

“A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?”

Should Real Would Be Political Spirit Nations Wise Dare Core Opponents Execution Supporter American Politics Rogues

Author:Jon Meacham

“Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.”

Term Economic Security Military National Security Economic Power Military Power Great Military

Author:Jon Meacham

“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.”

Mind Humans Reason Liberty Evidence Tradition Rejection Free Will Fundamentalism Certitude

Author:Jon Meacham

“The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.”

Children Real Hard Play Faces Enemy Growing Economic Hard Work Comfortable Capitalism Stronger Democratic Conviction Inequality Assault Economic Inequality

Author:Jon Meacham

“If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.”

Ifs Persons Religious Rights Identity Color Gay Skins Deny Gender Sexuality Access Secular Homosexuality Homosexual Sacraments Crow Jim Crow Skin Color

Author:Jon Meacham

“I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.”

Stills Father Grew Grew Up Gun Barrels Rifles Southerner Shotguns

Author:Jon Meacham

“The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.”

Needs Prove Proof Theology

Author:Karl Barth

“I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves.”

People Way Years Believe Looks Children Different Young I Believe Middle Century Discrimination My Children 21st Century Respectable

Author:Jon Meacham