Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I was tired of an outlaw's life.

The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit ... Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do ... He does not keep "protecting" you by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.

Disobedience is my joy!

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

By all means break the rules.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses. I decided I wasn't going to open an account. Put it the other way round - there was no reason that I should.