All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.
--Bill Hicks
All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.
--Bill Hicks
As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
--Bill Hicks
Do a commercial, you're off the artistic roll call, every word you say is suspect, you're a corporate whore and end of story.
--Bill Hicks
Do you think when Jesus comes back he wants to see a cross? It's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.
--Bill Hicks
I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.
--Bill Hicks
I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.
--Bill Hicks
I believe the cost of life is death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift.
--Bill Hicks
I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.
--Bill Hicks
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
--Bill Hicks
I'll tell you who the threat to the status quo is in this country. It's us. That's why they... keep you afraid... impotent.
--Bill Hicks
I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.
--Bill Hicks
I'm just saying if you're gonna have a war against drugs, have 'em against all drugs, including alcohol.
--Bill Hicks
If you are living for tomorrow, you will always be one day behind.
--Bill Hicks
It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.
--Bill Hicks
It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.
--Bill Hicks
Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.
--Bill Hicks
Not all drugs are good. Some are great.
--Bill Hicks
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves... After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
--Bill Hicks
People always snap and think they're Jesus. How come no one ever snaps and thinks they're Buddha?
--Bill Hicks
That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies... and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama.
--Bill Hicks
The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
--Bill Hicks
The voice of reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.
--Bill Hicks
The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty fucking cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too?
--Bill Hicks
There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.
--Bill Hicks
There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
--Bill Hicks
To me pornography is... spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.
--Bill Hicks
Truly, the only stupid people I've ever met, the most absolutely clueless, are the very people that produce television.
--Bill Hicks
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
--Bill Hicks
We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.
--Bill Hicks
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
--Bill Hicks
We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are.
--Bill Hicks
When you're... stepping over a guy on the sidewalk... does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'
--Bill Hicks
You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
--Bill Hicks
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