Bill Hicks on caffeine
Bill Hicks177 quotes“Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
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[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 No, I don’t do drugs anymore, either. But I’ll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I’ll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it’s not a very popular idea, you don’t hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth,
Bill HicksBill Hicks When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
Bill HicksBill Hicks People always snap and think they’re Jesus. How come no one ever snaps and thinks they’re Buddha?
Bill HicksBill Hicks Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America… you are free to do as we tell you… you are free to do as we tell you.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I’m fascinated by it. I’m fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that’s interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that’s why you giggle the first hour.
Bill HicksBill Hicks A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.
Bill HicksBill Hicks People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn’t share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn’t have, seeing as it’s being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
Bill HicksBill Hicks We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
Bill HicksBill Hicks …love rather than fear…this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope…surely there is hope for us all.
Bill HicksBill Hicks What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?
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