Jan Zizka Quotes

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

It is sweet and honourable to die for one’s country.

The people's flag is deepest red; It shrouded oft our martyred dead .... Then raise the scarlet standard high. Within its shade we'll live or die. Tho' cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.

It is a sweet and glorious thing to die for one's country. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

If you avoid dying for the honour and freedom of the Fatherland, you will die a criminal or a slave; die for the faith and the Fatherland and you will be granted life and a crown in heaven

We are to die so that the motherland may live; for while we live the motherland is dying.

Every Spaniard who does not conspire with the most active and effective means possible against the tyranny in favour of our just cause will be held as an enemy and a traitor to the fatherland; and in consequence will be inexorably put to the knife. On the other hand, an absolute and general indulgence will be granted to those who pass to our army with or without their arms...Spaniards who render conspicuous service to the State will be treated as Americans...Spaniards and men of the Canary Islands, if you are lukewarm and do not work actively for America’s freedom, you may be certain of death. Americans, even if you have done wrong, you may be certain of life.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere.

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.