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• All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.

  Bill Hicks

  Real, Ems, Taught

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• And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, "This is my creation, perfect in every way... oh, dammit I left all this pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it... Now I have to create Republicans."

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Perfect, Want

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• You know all the money we spend on nuclear weapons and defence every year? Trillions of dollars? Correct? Trillions. Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world,which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, not one, we could, as one race, explore outer space together in peace forever

  Bill Hicks

  Years, Space, Race

  "Love All the People". New Edition,

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• Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.

  Bill Hicks

  Jesus, Kings, Luther

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• It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

  Bill Hicks

  Party, America, Political

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• I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest.

  Bill Hicks

  Long, Care, Honest

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• I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country... How are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?

  Bill Hicks

  Country, Law, Mushrooms

  "Shock and Awe". Live album by Bill Hicks, recorded in November 11, 1992 at The Oxford Playhouse, 2003.

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• I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Order, Purpose

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• It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.

  Bill Hicks

  War, Drug, Personal Freedom

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• Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

  Bill Hicks

  Eye, Gun, Simple

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Revolutionary Ideas

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• Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

  Bill Hicks

  Inspirational, Funny, Eye

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• They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

  Bill Hicks

  Life, Smoking, Comedian

  "Dark Poet". Stand-up show, 1991.

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• I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.

  Bill Hicks

  Land, Ideas, America

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• Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me.".

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Mushrooms, Interesting

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• If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Cds, Political

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• All governments are lying cocksuckers.

  Bill Hicks

  Lying, Government

  "Philosophy: The Best of Bill Hicks". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 2001.

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• There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue - those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS - but they remain strangely silent.

  Bill Hicks

  Gun, Views, Issues

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• I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Drug, Growing

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• I think it's interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice sentiment, but do you think when Jesus comes back, he's really going to want to look at a cross?

  Bill Hicks

  Christian, Jesus, Nice

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• People tell me, 'Bill, let it go. The Kennedy assassination was years ago. It was just the assassination of a President and the hijacking of our government by a totalitarian regime - who cares? Just let it go.' I say, 'All right then. That whole Jesus thing? Let it go! It was 2,000 years ago! Who cares?'

  Bill Hicks

  Jesus, Government, Years

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

  Bill Hicks

  Revolutionary Ideas, Church, Thumbs

  "Filling Up the Hump". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1993.

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• How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

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  Jobs, People, Vote

  "Shock and Awe". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 2003.

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• If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Block, Humor

  "Post-Sachsgate, standups should channel Bill Hicks" by Bruce Dessau, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.

  Bill Hicks

  Sleep, Night, Eight

  "Salvation". Live album by Bill Hicks, 2005.

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