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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIn 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.
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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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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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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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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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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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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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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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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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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