Clash Quotes

• The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Freedom, Ideas, Sound

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• When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Flower, Men

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• Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

  Louis Aragon

  Meaningful, Black And White, Errors

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• Let the ideas clash, let the swords sleep!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sleep, Ideas

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• Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.

  Tad Kubler

  Growing Up, Kissing, Listening

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• Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

  Justin Sane

  Fighting, Rocks, Racism

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, April 28, 2006.

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• As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

  Chuck D

  Teenager, Rap, Cutting

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I’m still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I’ve got older I’ve chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

  Iwan Rheon

  Teenage, Pistols, Punk

  "[TMN Exclusive] Iwan Rheon – Interview". The Music Ninja Interview, www.themusicninja.com. May 28, 2013.

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• I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

  Boy George

  Sex, Idols, Clubs

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• When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

  Joe Strummer

  Blame Someone, Hey, Faults

  Interview with Judy McGuire, Punk Magazine, www.punkmagazine.com. 2001.

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• The hippy movement was a failure.

  Joe Strummer

  Movement

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• All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?

  Hirohito

  Brother, Military, War

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• Freedom rings where opinions clash.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Opinion, Rings

  Quoted by Ted Weiss during a Congressional hearing, November 13, 1985.

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• Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

  Cesare Pavese

  Hate, Hatred, Body

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• The religion of the God who became man has met the religion (for such it is) of man who makes himself God. And what happened? Was there a clash, a battle, a condemnation? There could have been, but there was none

  Pope Paul VI

  Men, Battle, Mets

  Pope Paul VI, United States Catholic Conference (1968). “Pope Paul says ...: translations of some of Pope Paul's addresses”

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• Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honesty, Fear, Independent

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (1934). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude”

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• Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

  Joe Strummer

  Responsibility, Thinking, Trying

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• Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

  Billy Bragg

  Safety Pins, Pairs, Punk

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• All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

  Joe Strummer

  Hands, People, Rich

  "Song: 'White Riot' ('The Clash')". 1977.

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  In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

  Joe Strummer

  Mean, Rocks, Facts

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. September 1999.

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• Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

  John Stuart Mill

  Ideas, Adverse

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• Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent man had to be against fascism, period. It is not as simple as apartheid or colonialism or racism or misogyny. It is not simple because the Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country, about the size of New Jersey.

  Amos Oz

  Country, Simple, Men

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Military, Men, Long

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• There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Truth, World, Tragic

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• Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they are concerned there can only be one true way- and they want to find it. Thus normative philosophers argue that knowledge is a result of the application of certain rules, they propose rules which in their opinion constitute knowledge and reject what clashes with them.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Trying, Way, Exclusion

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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