Doug Stanhope Quotes

What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?

I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

The best way to get your audience larger and more consistent is to be more divisive and more radical and criticize those who cater to or kowtow to other forces.

Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

We didn’t sell out our last concert. We’ve got to get the John Birch Society to attack us before the next concert.

I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.

I think some people enjoy that I say things that upset or shake up people.

You know, I had grown up standing on public sidewalks, saying things that people, you know, were very provoked by and were upset by. And - but standing outside that first soldier's funeral, it was eerily quiet.

As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.

I'm not going to back down one bit in attacking Trump.

Black pride. Gay pride. White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant pride. All of these things, you know, they're polarized, aren't they? The red and blue states. Christians, that's the most insidious aspect of it, giving into this great Christian image of America. That's the most frightening thing of all. Whereas in the past they're trying to find things that unite us, to minimize the differences. Whereas today there's this belief in empowerment and entitlement by maximizing differences. I'm not so sure that that's healthy.

The NEA is a terrorist organization.

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

What I Suddenly Understand My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life. ---> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim.

Sarah Palin is Latina. Pay-leen. She has an infant and a grandkid the same age. Latina!

Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something to the effect of how it felt to be dropping bombs on children in Vietnamese villages. And it got very icy in there all of a sudden, and finally the teacher said, "Oh, well, Eric reads a lot of newspapers. Next question."

Jesse Jackson's wife was arrested in Puerto Rico while protesting the naval bombings there. Jesse said he was holding a meeting with four of his secretaries to decide what to do and that these meetings could run well into the night.