Quotes by Boyd Rice

About Boyd Rice:

Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard magazine.
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Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in natur...

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If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now that’s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters...

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Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-o...

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Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the...

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I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

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I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.

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To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

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I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

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Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.

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My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

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No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

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I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.

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There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.

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I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since.

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I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

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Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

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The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

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Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

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Author Bio

  • NameBoyd Rice
  • DescriptionAuthor
  • BornDecember 16, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Musician; Writer; Sound Artist