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.
BILL HICKSWhat’s gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we’re all one. Ha ha ha ha ha! It’s gonna fuck up the economy!
More Bill Hicks Quotes
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Music is a great energizer. It’s a language everybody knows.
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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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No, I don’t do drugs anymore, either. But I’ll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I’ll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it’s not a very popular idea, you don’t hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth,
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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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[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is…thinking, ‘This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.’
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Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day.
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I don’t like anything in the mainstream and they don’t like me.
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Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
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What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?
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Surgeon General’s warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.
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I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I’m fascinated by it. I’m fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that’s interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy.
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Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren’t partyin’.
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Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.
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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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I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not the most popular idea ever expressed. Either that or you’re all real high and agreeing with me in the only way you can right now. (Starts blinking)
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I don’t care if you’re obscene, filthy, horrendous — as long as you’re honest.
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The Voice of Reason is in us all…and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.
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BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You’re not a human being until you’re in my phone book.
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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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Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake.
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People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn’t share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn’t have, seeing as it’s being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
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How would you like to get inside that guy’s mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn’t he?
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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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You are the imagination of yourself.
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It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a war on personal freedom.
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Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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