... are probably what the Manics are best known for. Since the early days until present the band have probably never appeared on stage or TV without a slogan or quote written on their T-shirts. This also goes for their CD Album and Single inserts, which have always been full of intelligent words and sentences from people much smarter than you and me. Here is a list of some of the quotes used on their way from Blackwood to the World.

We are the sad victims of the 20th-century.culture
Richey

Adventure is dead
Guy Debord

Call no man happy until hes dead
Chinese proverb

The greatest thing Ive ever done is smash a police camera in town. It was back again the next week
David Thompson

The most beautiful thing in London is McDonalds
Richey

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope
Albert Camus

Sometimes I have sex to avoid communication
Disposable Heroes

I do love cleaning. It gives me such a sense of fulfilment
Nicky

Cutting myslef I find it attractive I find it sexual.
Richey

The days of this society are numbered. Its reasons and merits have been weighed and found lacking. Its inhabitants are divided into two parties, one of which wants the society to disappear
Guy Debord

Your real duty is to save your dream
Modigliani

Alienated individuals are condemned to lives spent effectively watching themselves
Sadie Plant

Our manifesto is, Dont do it, kids, never get past the age of 13
Richey

I talk to God, but the sky is empty
Sylvia Plath

Friendship is little. Life is short
Edvard Munch

Sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself
Albert Camus

Theres an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the same time are desperately unhappy. Its not a total poverty, just a poverty of ideas.
Richey

Be a man. Be someone. Kill someone. Be a man. Kill yourself.
Sex Pistols

I do think we are a uniquely fucked up race of people. No two ways about it.
Nicky

The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born its so perfect but when it opens its eyes its just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.
Richey

Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.
Sren Kirkegaard

Deprive man of his life lie and you take away his happiness
Henrik Ibsen

I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view
Richey

Then came man. He wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to
Albert Camus

Life begins on the other side of despair/La vie commence lautre cot du desespoir
Jean-Paul Sartre

There is eloquence in screaming
Patrick Jones

1989:

Classified Machine
Richey

TV Overdose
Sean

Suicide Beat
Nicky

New Art Riot
James


1991:
Bomb The Past
Richey

Lonesome Aesthetic
Richey

Im Your Baby Doll
Nicky

Kill Yourself
Richey

London Death Sentence Heritage
Richey

Culture Of Destruction
James

Generation Terrorists
Nicky

1990
James

Culture Slut
Nicky

Spectators Of Suicide
Richey

Riot Star
Nicky

Sensitive
Richey

Rock n Roll Object Of Desire
Nicky

Joe Bloggs Fuck Off
Sean

I Love Slash, We Hate Dance
James

Rock n Roll Suicide
Nicky

Ne Travaille Jamais
Richey

Destroy Work
Nicky

Suicide Baby
Nicky


1992:

All Rock n Roll Is Homosexual
Richey

Bored Out Of My Mind
Richey

Im Too Dead
Richey

Scars Dead Hate Void
Richey

Dead Flowers
Nicky

No More State
Nicky

Condemned To Rock n Roll
James


1993:

Fuck Me And Leave
Richey


1994:

Im So Modern That Everything Is Pointless
Nicky

PCP
Richey

If You Possess Virtue You Are Its Victim
James

There Is No Choice
Richey


1997:

I Love Hoovering
Nicky