Bill Hicks Quotes

• I’m not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

  Bill Hicks

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Smoking, Comedian

• I’m a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

  Bill Hicks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Smoker, Through

• I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

  Bill Hicks

  Topics in Funny, Laughter

  Tags in Comedian, Abide

• I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

  Bill Hicks

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Outsider, Comedian

• I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that’s how it comes out.

  Bill Hicks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comedian, Bitter, Cold

• I don’t like anything in the mainstream and they don’t like me.

  Bill Hicks

  Tags in Mainstream

• I don’t do drugs anymore… than, say, the average touring funk band.

  Bill Hicks

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian, Average

• 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.

  Bill Hicks

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian, Smarter

• As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

  Bill Hicks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Darkness

• And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else’s, I’m happy to do it.

  Bill Hicks

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian, Transforming

• Nazis are for the New Age concern.

  Bill Hicks

  Topics in Age, Funny

Bill Hicks (31)

Birth:	16th December, 1961
Death:	26th February, 1994
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Comedian, Musician

About

Bill Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician. His material, encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy, was controversial, and often steeped in dark comedy. He criticized consumerism, superficiality, mediocrity, and banality within the media and popular culture, which he characterized as oppressive tools of the ruling class that "keep people stupid and apathetic".

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