Pete Townshend Quotes

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Telling the truth - telling thoughtful truths - should not be a revolutionary act. Speaking truths to power should not be sacrificial, but they are.

Being a rocker, to me, is equal to living as much of the truth as possible.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'

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

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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.

I can give you nothing but my life. I wish that my last breath might be of use to my fellow citizens and that my head'[after she was guillotined], carried through Paris, might be a signal to rally all the friends of justice …. I have shown you the way. You know your enemies. Arise, march, and strike!

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Great political and social changes begin to be possible as soon as men are not afraid to risk their lives.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

I hope that people will say that 'she told the truth, she told her truth, she wasn't afraid to live her truth, and she wasn't afraid to live her truth out loud.' That's what I want my legacy to look like.

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.

We have to speak truth to power.

Elvis Presley's music said, 'Free your body.' The Beatles said, 'Free your mind.'