# Kingdom of Fear - Author: [Hunter S. Thompson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson.md) - Quotes: 16 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear ## Quotes > It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as just another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/it-was-wonderful.md) > I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/i-have-a-theory.md) > I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/i-understand-that.md) > The only difference between the Sane and the Insane, is IN and yet within this world, the Sane have the power to have the Insane locked up. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/the-only-difference.md) > Now, years later, I still have trouble when I think about Chicago ('68). That week at the Convention changed everything I'd ever taken for granted about this country and my place in it... Everytime I tried to tell somebody what happened in Chicago I began crying , and it took me years to understand why... Chicago was the End of the Sixties, for me. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/now-years-later.md) > I was also drunk, crazy and heavily armed at all times. People trembled and cursed when I came into a public room and started screaming in German. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/i-was-also.md) > All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/all-political-power.md) > We shit on the chest of Weird. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/we-shit-on-the.md) > We are like pygmies lost in a maze of haze. We are not at war, we are having a nervous breakdown,again. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/we-are-like.md) > Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/music-has-always.md) > The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/the-only-ones.md) > 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. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/we-have-become.md) > I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since. The whole thing was a failure. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/i-knew-a-buddhist.md) > Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/paranoia-is-just.md) > Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/morality-is-temporary.md) > I shit on the chest of Fun. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/i-shit-on-the.md)