I’m tired of this back-slappin’ “isn’t humanity neat” bullshit. We’re a virus with shoes.
BILL HICKSThe 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.
More Bill Hicks Quotes
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The role of the comedian is to say ‘Wait a minute’ when a consensus starts to form.
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I’m a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.
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I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
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Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.
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I’ll smoke, I’ll cough, I’ll get the tumors, I’ll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]
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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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I’d…bet enthusiasm for ‘ethnic cleansing’ will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties.
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I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York… Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!
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…I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An ‘avenging GOD’? One who created Hell for those who don’t believe?
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I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.
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Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
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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.
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We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
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I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.
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I don’t do drugs anymore… than, say, the average touring funk band.
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It’s an insane world, and I’m proud to be a part of it.
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May I suggest, instead of a war to feel better about yourself, perhaps… sit-ups? Maybe a fruit cup? Eight glasses of water a day?
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You ever seen somebody do that? I’ve seen someone do that. Let me tell you something – if you’re smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I’d think about quitting. And that’s just me, ya know.
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What before seemed a…frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.
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Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.
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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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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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Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren’t partyin’.
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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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There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue – those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS – but they remain strangely silent.
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I don’t like anything in the mainstream and they don’t like me.
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