Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
-Hunter S. Thompson in America quotes.

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect."
-Hunter S. Thompson in Crime quotes.

"You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it's waving a hunting knife in your eyes."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
-Hunter S. Thompson in Sanity quotes.

"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"As your attorney i advise you to take a hit out of the small brown bottle in my shaving kit."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"McComb is big and strong up front. They made some mistakes and led us 14-0 at halftime."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"Brookhaven is very good, ... They have some athletes. Their quarterback throws and runs the ball well. They are good offensively and defensively."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix..."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo to the end."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"Fear is just another word for ignorance."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"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. Thompson