Jello Biafra Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

  Jello Biafra

  People, Islam, Culture

  "Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K". Interview with Nardwuar, razorcake.org. December 27, 2012.

• To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.

  Jello Biafra

  Growing Up, Teenager, Kids

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

• I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.

  Jello Biafra

  Culture, Body, Slipping

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

• One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not as though the independent media movement wasn't already there, but it's given it another jump-start. There's the feeling that not only should we report on our underground culture and our own situation, but now we have to start telling people what's really going on at a time when everything from CNN to USA Today is as tightly controlled as Tass or Pravda.

  Jello Biafra

  Independent, Media, Usa

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

• Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

  Jello Biafra

  Inspiration, Passion, Inspire

  "Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time'". Interview with Dom Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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