There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAs long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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 learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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