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Alonso Quijano
11th November 2013, 09:15
A man who wasn't talking about factions and alignments, just about ideas. Influenced me a lot. Anyone else here admires him?

"So don't complain about your useless employment, jack it in forever tonight, or shut your mouth and and pretend you enjoy it"

"No man born with a a living soul can be working for the clampdown. Kick over the wall, cause governments to fall, how can you refuse it?"

"Are you taking over, or are yoy taking orders? Are you moving backward, or are you moving forward?"

"You're fretting, you're sweating, but did you notice you ain't getting anywhere? Don't you ever stop long enough to start to get your car out of that gear?"

"Marx was skint, but he had sense, Engels lent him the necessary pence"

"Who gives you work and why should you do it?"

"Working for the devil you have to pay his tax"

"Till humanise is equalised - put down the tools"

"I know that my life make you nervous, but I tell you I I can't live in service"

"The hillsides ring with "Free the people, or can I hear the rhe echoes from the days of '39?"

"But you, you're not searching, are you now? You're not looking anyhow. You're never gonna ride that lonely mile, or put yourself up on the trial. Oh, you told me how your life is so bad, and I agree that it does seem sad. But that's the prize that you gotta pay for lazing all around all day"

Futility Personified
11th November 2013, 22:15
If it wasn't for his music i'd probably have killed myself, if it wasn't for his lyrics I would've hated myself and if it wasn't for his ideas I wouldn't be myself.

Captain Red
14th December 2013, 23:17
We need more people like him today