Gonzo Post

The edges of sanity blurred by heavy doses of unmitigated and brutal honesty.

[gonzopost]

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

[gonzopost]

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Hunter S. Thompson, Salon.com interview Feb 2003

[thepolychromeattic]

“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.” - Hunter S. Thompson

[edwardkoenning]

If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

Hunter S. Thompson (via edwardkoenning)

[gonzopost]

There is a line somewhere between democratizing journalism and every man a journalist. You can't really believe what you read in the papers anyway, but there is at least some spectrum of reliability. Maybe it's becoming like the TV talk shows or the tabloids where anything's acceptable as long as it's interesting.

Hunter S. Thompson, The Atlantic (1997)

[gonzopost]

[gonzopost]

I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots.

Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone (1976)

[gonzopost]

“In a democracy you have to be a player.”

[slavetotheblackdrug]

[fuckyeahhst]

Never call 911 Never This means you

[gonzopost]

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us.

Hunter S. Thompson

[gonzopost]

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

Hunter S. Thompson

[gonzopost]

Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they will give him anything he wants.

Hunter S. Thompson

[gonzopost]

Desperate men do desperate things, and stupid men do stupid things. We are in for a desperately stupid summer.

Hunter S. Thompson

[gonzopost]

How I stand vis-`-vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma.

Hunter S. Thompson, Salon Interview [2003]

[gonzopost]

[gonzopost]

The hippies, who had never really believed they were the wave of the future anyway, saw the election results as brutal confirmation of the futility of fighting the establishment on its own terms. There had to be a whole new scene, they said, and the only way to do it was to make the big move — either figuratively or literally — from Berkeley to the Haight-Ashbury, from pragmatism to mysticism, from politics to dope... The thrust is no longer for "change" or "progress" or "revolution," but merely to escape, to live on the far perimeter of a world that might have been.

Hunter S. Thompson, "The Hashbury is the Capital of the Hippies" (May 1967)

[gonzopost]

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Hunter S. Thompson