This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions.
BILL HICKS
BILL HICKS
Bill Hicks on illusion
Bill Hicks177 quotes“This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions.”
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I can’t believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.
Bill HicksBill Hicks At least he f-kin’ jams! If it’s a choice between eternal Hell and good tunes, and eternal Heaven and New Kids on the f-kin’ Block … I’m gonna be surfin’ on the lake of fire, rockin’ out.
Bill HicksBill Hicks You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know during the Persian Gulf war those intelligence reports would come out: “Iraq: incredible weapons – incredible weapons.” How do you know that? “Uh, well… we looked at the receipts.”
Bill HicksBill Hicks I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you’ll find in this world.
Bill HicksBill Hicks If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added ’em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don’t want any gay people hanging around me while I’m killing kids. I just don’t want to see it.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake.
Bill HicksBill Hicks So, it’s good to be here, wherever I am.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.
Bill HicksBill Hicks [Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is…thinking, ‘This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.’
Bill HicksBill Hicks You are the imagination of yourself.
Bill HicksBill Hicks You’re not a human till you’re in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.
Bill HicksBill Hicks How come people always flip and think they’re Jesus? Why not Buddha? Particularly in America, where more people resemble Buddha than Jesus. ‘Ah’m BUDDHA!’ ‘You’re Bubba!’ ‘Ah’m Buddha now..All I gotta do is change 3 letters on ma belt.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I don’t know what you all believe, and I don’t really care … but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks … you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?
Bill HicksBill Hicks
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