There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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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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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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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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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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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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