"Fear And Loathing" Quotes . Top 34 Short Quotes About "Fear And Loathing"

"Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate."

--- Audre Lorde

#People #Thinking #Economy

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched."

--- William McKeen

#Book #Pencils #Loathing

"I see light at the end of the tunnel."

--- Walt Whitman Rostow

#Funny Business #Motivational Keep Going #Heart Break

"Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives."

--- Charles Hermite

#Loathing #Function #Derivatives

"People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag."

--- Christopher Meloni

#People #Puppy Dog #Hotel

"Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you."

--- Steven Tyler

#Funny Business #Aerosmith #Persist

"Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all."

--- Stephen Colbert

#Loathing #Gonzo Journalism #Job Well Done

"He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

--- Dr. Seuss

#Becoming A Man #Loathing #Beast

"Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!"

--- Pema Chodron

#I Can #Loathing #Lunch

"Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer."

--- Morihei Ueshiba

#Fear #Martial Arts #Loathing

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Childhood #What Is Life #Preservation

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Answers #Loathing #Gonzo Journalism

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Music #Loathing #Dating

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Killing #Salesman #Loathing

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Black Humor #Funny Beer Drinking #Drinking Alcohol

"In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Left Alone #Made #Loathing

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Guilty #Stupid #Sin

"In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Sin #Thieves #Loathing

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Freak #Loathing #Life

"Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Long Runs #Explanation #Loathing

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Tequila #Seventies #Galaxy

"A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Loathing #Way #Alleys

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Terrible #Feels #Miles

"It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#People #Loathing #Gonzo Journalism

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#People #Gone Crazy #Loathing

"Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Said #Loathing #Wanted

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Loathing #Gonzo Journalism #Vegas

"No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Reality #Loathing #Drug

"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question; as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Loathing #Collapse #Vegas

"We can't stop here, this is bat country!"

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Loathing #Bats #Vegas

"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Loathing #Gonzo Journalism #Drug

"There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills, blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - the mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting, because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can’t control it."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Drunkards #Terrible #Helpless

"I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Tension #Lost Cause #Loathing

"Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final."

--- Hunter S. Thompson

#Race #Rats #Loathing

34 "Fear And Loathing" Quotes