In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThe 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.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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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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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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