[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is…thinking, ‘This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.’
BILL HICKSMy voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.
More Bill Hicks Quotes
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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 left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
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I saw…a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.
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I love talking about Kennedy assassination…a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government…sorry, wrong meeting.
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The CIA has a plot…they’ve used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem…is convincing Hussein…to fly to Dallas.
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A Christian will say… “I believe God created me in one day” Yeah, looks liked He rushed it.
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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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You are the imagination of yourself.
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Humanity is just a virus with shoes.
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I don’t know what you all believe, and I don’t really care … but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks … you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?
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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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They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer
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It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.
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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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Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.
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Would you let the aliens land, please? They might be here to pick me up.
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It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a war on personal freedom.
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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.
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I’m tired of this back-slappin’ “isn’t humanity neat” bullshit. We’re a virus with shoes.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s my object to be stared at like a dog that’s just been shown a card trick.
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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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