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 HICKSAnd on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, “This is my creation, perfect in every way… oh, dammit I left all this pot all over the place. Now they’ll think I want them to smoke it… Now I have to create Republicans.”
More Bill Hicks Quotes
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Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
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I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns.
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Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I’ll prove it to you. You’re at a ball game or a concert, and someone’s really violent and agressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?
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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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The role of the comedian is to say ‘Wait a minute’ when a consensus starts to form.
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As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
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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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What’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!
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Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! … That’s the story of Jesus.
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Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day.
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Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
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I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, ‘My dad can beat up your dad.’ I’d say ‘Yeah? When?’
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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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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 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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How do I know the Bible isn’t the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand…considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!
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People always snap and think they’re Jesus. How come no one ever snaps and thinks they’re Buddha?
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I don’t do drugs anymore… than, say, the average touring funk band.
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I don’t identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.
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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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We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
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Women priests. Great, great. Now there’s priests of both sexes I don’t listen to.
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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.
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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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I’m just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.
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Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.
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