Johnny Rotten Quotes (23 Quotes)

Anyone who's parading under a 100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.

Every time I see Bono in those big fly glasses and tight leather pants I just can't hack it. I can't see that as solving the world's problems. He's crushing his testicles in tight trousers for world peace.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

It's a loser's emblem (swastika), because the Nazis lost the war. It's ridiculous to suggest we are involved with fascists. All my best friends are black, gay, Irish or criminals.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

You'll get one number and one number only, 'cause I'm a lazy bastard

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Judge not others unless you're prepared to be judged

At the time we should have been tightest, we could'nt have been looser.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

(Talking about Britain's school education) They take your soul away. They take your brains away. They don't let you have an opinion that's different from theirs. You've got to think what they tell you to think. So when you leave school, your only future is getting married. And by the time you're about 29 you got two kids, and you just wanna commit suicide.

on being attacked in a parking lot While I was being pounded to pieces, I was just thinking, 'Hell... oh, this is just so absurd.' You have to laugh because it's so... where do they come from.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.