Bill Hicks Quotes

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?

I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me - because I recognized that, within me, there is this flame, of wishing it were better, wishing people had better lives, that there was more of an authentic sharing and harmony with nature.

Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

I dont like quotes. You can quote me on that.

Cheer up, things will get worse.

When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.