The role of the comedian is to say ‘Wait a minute’ when a consensus starts to form.
BILL HICKSJust a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
More Bill Hicks Quotes
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Good comedy helps people know they’re not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.
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I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.
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I’d…bet enthusiasm for ‘ethnic cleansing’ will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties.
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I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, “My God! I love everything.” Yeah, now if that isn’t a hazard to our country…
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We really are All One….this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.
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We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
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Sixteen years I’ve pounded my head against the mentality of America, which…I’d say it’s about an 8th grade emotional level.
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Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves…After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
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We are losing the ‘War on Drugs,’ which means there’s a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.
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I’ll tell you how to solve this abortion thing…Those unwanted babies…? Leave about 12 of them on the Supreme Court steps.
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The economy that’s fake anyway! Ha ha ha! Which would be a real bummer. You know. You can see why the government’s cracking down… on the idea of experiencing unconditional love, ah.
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I go to dance clubs…about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going ‘God, what idiots!’
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I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman…come in the guise of a comic…to heal perception by using…’jokes’.
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I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that’s how it comes out.
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You’re not a human till you’re in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.
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