Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Hunter S. Thompson on Wise Famous Quotes.
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.
Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? Was there no communication in this car? Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts?
Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious ...
Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.
Journalism is a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed!
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.
The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.
Las Vegas is not the kind of town where you want to drive down Main Street aiming a black bazooka-looking instrument at people.
Arriving half-drunk in a foreign place is hard on the nerves. You have a feeling that something is wrong, that you can't get a grip.
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer ... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
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.
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.
Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
A group photo of the top ten journalists in America on any given day would be a monument to human ugliness.
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ...
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
But why not float if you have no goal? That is another question. It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty.
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.
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
Real happiness, in politics, is a wide-open hammer shot on some poor bastard who knows he's been trapped, but can't flee.
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.
You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways
but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.
Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
We are going to Court, Andrew. We are champions! We will crush them like cheap roaches! TODAY'S PIG IS TOMORROW'S BACON!
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.