108 Quotes by Joe Strummer

Greed, it ain’t going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you’re nothing.

Everyone has got to realise you can’t hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

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

I don’t have any other message than don’t forget you are alive.

It is fun to be alive. It’s a hell of a lot better than being dead.

A lot of the time I’m semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

I don’t want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

If you ain’t thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain’t thinkin about nothin’.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn’t have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed.