Mister, I don’t want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don’t even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain’t looking for no trouble, Mister.
BILL HICKSWhen two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
More Bill Hicks Quotes
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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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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.
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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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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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Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing? It’s because, um – they’re no longer relevant. We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
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Marijuana grows naturally…Don’t you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don’t know, unnatural?
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England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States…23,000 deaths from handguns. But – there’s no connection.
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I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin’ [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] ‘good evening everybody, remember me, smoking’s bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww.
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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.
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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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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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I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us…to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.
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People often ask me where I stand politically. It’s not that I disagree with Bush’s economic policy or his foreign policy, it’s that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
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I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children that a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night.
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It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a war on personal freedom.
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