Paul Stanley Quotes

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

More than my political affiliation, I consider myself a hellraising humanitarian. Hell raising in the sense that I don't just go along to get along.

That's what Tupac and I got from my dad - the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

I'm a communist, man. I'm going to break the rules.

The powers of the teenagers in 'The Darkest Minds' were always meant to represent that inherent drive that young people have to make change, and how the world pushes back against it.

I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.

The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.