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


"Children are smarter than any of us.
Know how I know that?
I don't know one child with a full time job and children."


"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.""


"It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want.
It's only a choice.
No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money,
a choice, right now, between fear and love.
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns,
close yourself off.
The eyes of love instead see all of us as one."


"We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution."


"The world is like a ride in an amusement park.
And when you choose to go on it you think it's real
because that's how powerful our minds are.
And the ride goes up and down and round and round.
It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored
and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while.
Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question:
"Is this real, or is this just a ride?"
And other people have remembered,
and they come back to us, they say,
"Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride."
And we kill those people."


"Go back to bed, America,
your government has figured out how it all transpired.
Go back to bed America, your government is in control.
Here, here's American Gladiators.
Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America,
here is American Gladiators,
here is 56 channels of it!
Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together
and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom.
Here you go America - you are free to do what we tell you!
You are free to do what we tell you!"


"I'm gonna share with you a vision that I had, cause I love you.
And you feel it.
You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons
and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct?
Instead -- just play with this -- if we spent that money
feeding and clothing
the poor of the world -- and it would pay for it many times over,
not one human being excluded -- we can explore space together,
both inner and outer,
forever in peace.

Thank you very much.
You've been great,
I hope you enjoyed it."


-Bill Hicks-