"Violence never quashed violence because if you're equipped to do violence then you'll continue that passage. Let's say Nazis, if Nazis they be, have got a profoundly ugly form of thought and of actions, why match that? Antifa's ugliness is no better than the ugliness of the far right."

“I think that I just wasn't brought up under any rules, and I think that made me a little different and people wanted to look up to that or aspire to that, and that makes me very grateful.”

Source : "The With Leather Interview: ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper Talks About The Klondike Challenge And More". Interview with Ashley Burns, uproxx.com. September 13, 2013.

“Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.”

“Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.”

“Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact…”

“I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.”

“You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.”

“Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.”

“Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.”