Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

One believes in what one wants to believe in.

You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at you and say, 'Well, how can you tell me not to do that when you were there doing it yourself?' Or supposedly were doing it yourself. I think you must let everyone live their life the way they have to.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

Our people [Mormons] are free to live their life as they please. They have to make choices.

Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

There are some decisions in life that only you can make.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don't like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.