"Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears"

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Ignorance Quotes #Vision Quotes #Paranoia Quotes

“It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.”
“I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.”
“Unfortunately, in real life, people are so incredibly quick to judge a situation before it has completely played itself out. But fortunately, in "reel" life, the audience gets an opportunity to watch things unfold, or unravel... or both in some cases.”
“The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.”
“I don't really prepare for each role the same way.”
“Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.”
“The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
“Thackwell really can metaphorically coast home now”

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