Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires.

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

You're either slangin' crack rock, or you got a wicked jumpshot.

Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.

Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.

Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.