We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONNever fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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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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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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