There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAll the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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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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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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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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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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