Skip to content

There was something... total... something very undermining about the McGovern defeat... There was a very unexplained kind of... ominous quality to it... weeping chaos.

— Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

Another quote →

More quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

It ain't much, but it's the only weapon we have against the Greedheads.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

He Was A Crook (1994)

These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected.

All Hunter S. Thompson quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Hunter S. Thompson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.