FAMOUS HUNTER S THOMPSON QUOTES

“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”

“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”

“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”

“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”

“The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

“I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!'”

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.”

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”

“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks who would rather kiss a celebrity’s ass than tell the truth.”

“The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.”

“I’m too drunk to taste this chicken.”

“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” GOD IS WATCHING YOU QUOTES

“Weird behavior is natural in smart children like curiosity is to a kitten.”

“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”

“I am a messy person and I get bored with people quickly.”

“There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.”

“If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.”

“Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.”

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

“In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.”

“One of the things you learn after years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it’s waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.”

“I’m not trying to convince anybody of anything except me. I’m curious about myself. That’s always been one of my weaknesses.”

“Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested.”

“I hate to say this – but from my point of view as a radical, however, it’s time for us to decide who we really want running this country. We cannot afford four more years of Ronald Reagan and Bush, a mindless pair of zombies whom I just can’t even look at without feeling nauseous.”

“Anything that’s worth doing is worth doing to excess.”