Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort—as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol…

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

From this window we see the palace where the King is misled by perfidious counsels. Terror and fear have often issued from yon palace: let them return to-day in the name of the law, and let all those who inhabit that palace know that the King is alone inviolable, that the law will strike down the guilty without respect of persons, and that there is not a guilty head which can escape its sword.

Since all people do not do their duty and some, on the contrary, commit injustices, for the sake of keeping order in society, injustices and all enterprises against this order must be repressed: which was possible only through authority given to some over others, and which made government necessary.

Priests will pardon thieves but not philosophers.

You are a den of vipers and thieves ... by the eternal God, I will rout you out.