Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAll political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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