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Creativity Quote by GG Allin

"I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want"

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GG Allin isn’t offering a spiritual pep talk; he’s bragging about weaponizing the whole moral universe. “Forces of good and evil” sounds mythic, almost comic-book grand, but the punchline is petty and human: “to get what you want.” That last clause collapses any pretense of cosmic purpose into naked appetite. It’s a thief’s theology, a hustler’s metaphysics - morality reduced to a toolkit.

The intent reads as provocation with a smirk. Allin built a career on daring audiences to confuse spectacle with authenticity, and this line extends that dare into ethics. If good and evil are just “forces” you can redirect, then guilt, responsibility, even meaning become optional. It’s not nihilism exactly; it’s opportunism dressed up as philosophy. The subtext is control: he’s claiming he can metabolize anything - virtue, vice, outrage, devotion - into leverage.

Context matters because Allin’s persona thrived on the culture’s fascination with transgression: punk’s anti-establishment pose pushed to a grotesque extreme, then sold back as legend. In that ecosystem, “evil” isn’t a metaphysical category so much as a brand asset, a way to command attention and set terms. “Good,” meanwhile, can be co-opted too: sincerity, community, the rhetoric of freedom - all usable if it keeps the spotlight hot and the crowd reactive.

The line works because it’s both self-indictment and manifesto. It admits the con while daring you to admire the audacity.

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GG Allin

GG Allin (August 29, 1956 - June 28, 1993) was a Musician from USA.

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