There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.' 'Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon —… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
![“I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who read unknown writer's work. Maybe he was just hustling me. He liked to flirt, Allen. They called him a monster but he was only falling in love.” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d12/hunter-s-thompson-278_arrested_i-was-once-arrested-with-allen-ginsburg_119642.jpg)
