Bill Hicks on revolutionary
Bill Hicks177 quotes“Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
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I…am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light…in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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.
Bill HicksBill Hicks The role of the comedian is to say ‘Wait a minute’ when a consensus starts to form.
Bill HicksBill Hicks This Bud’s for yooouuuu.” C’mon, everybody, let’s be hypocritical bastards. It’s okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.
Bill HicksBill Hicks When you’re…stepping over a guy on the sidewalk…does it ever occur to you to think, ‘Wow. Maybe our system doesn’t work?’
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Why is pot against the law? It wouldn’t be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can’t make a profit off it, would it?
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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 HicksBill Hicks How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? …Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
Bill HicksBill Hicks I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don’t think a Marlboro Light’s gonna faze him that much.
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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!’
Bill HicksBill Hicks As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves…After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I find it ironic that people who are against things that cause sexual thoughts are generally fundamentalist Christians who also believe you should be fruitful and multiply.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
Alan HirschAlan Hirsch I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
Jane FondaJane Fonda The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.
Al GoldsteinAl Goldstein I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
Akbar GanjiAkbar Ganji [In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
Akbar GanjiAkbar Ganji For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
AeschinesAeschines A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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