While I’ve found many of the religious shows I’ve viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I’ve never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet – turning off the TV completely.
BILL HICKSWhat before seemed a…frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.
More Bill Hicks Quotes
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How are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we’re all one?
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See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you’ve got the money!
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I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, “Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest.” This guy was reaching.
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Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that’s why you giggle the first hour.
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Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you’ve chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You’re dead too.
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The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions
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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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Sometimes my dad even gets on this kick–‘You hate this country’….I have to tell him…I just hate being lied to.
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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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If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.
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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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To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.
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I wouldn’t give Satan a snowball’s chance in Hell against a woman’s ego.
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Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who’ve helped me.
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Let’s do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who’ve seen me before might know that.
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All your beliefs, they’re just that. They’re nothing. They’re how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make ’em real.
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Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I’ll prove it to you. You’re at a ball game or a concert, and someone’s really violent and agressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?
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I’ve learned a lot about women. I think I’ve learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we’ll never age.
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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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Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let’s put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.
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You know what I hate about working? Bosses…The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well…I think you see the conflict.
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God has this…hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.
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I don’t identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.
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Truly, the only stupid people I’ve ever met, the most absolutely clueless, are the very people that produce television.
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Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here’s my message: as scary as the world is – and it is – it is merely a ride …
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So, it’s good to be here, wherever I am.
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