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. THOMPSONLiberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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 is something that dies unless it’s used.
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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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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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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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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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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 miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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