It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONGood news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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