There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIn a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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