I don’t like anything in the mainstream and they don’t like me.
BILL HICKS
BILL HICKS
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Bill Hicks177 quotes“I don’t like anything in the mainstream and they don’t like me.”
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Bill HicksBill Hicks Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.
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Birgitta JonsdottirBirgitta Jonsdottir People say to me, Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves. Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?
Bill HicksBill Hicks I’m very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn’t possibly think of yourself… Good evening!
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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.
Bill HicksBill Hicks The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It’s a war against our civil rights, that’s all it is. They’re using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get suspending our rights one by one.
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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.
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For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
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Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich . The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!
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