Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

I really rebel against authority.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I'm that weird guy; I hate being told what to do.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

I was anti-conformist.

I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

Disobedience is my joy!

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.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

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