Bill Hicks Quotes

I've always had trouble with authority.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

I've never been any good with authority.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Authority is never without hate.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

Liberty has its roots in blood.

No matter how lofty you are in your department, the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

We don't take over the means of those whom we abhor.

Our vengeance shall rival Spanish ferocity. Our goodwill is at last exhausted; and, since our oppressors compel us to mortal warfare, they shall disappear from America and our land shall be purged of the monsters that infest it. Our hate shall be inexorable and our war shall be to the death.

Some people need a command-and-control environment.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

I don't like having managers.

The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.