Political Sayings

I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, so long as it breaks up the damnable smugness of the world.

I’m not like a politician who’s gonna lie to your face and then go do something else.

Art is a dictatorship. But it’s a dictatorship where the dictator is never sure.

The government puts chemicals in our food to keep us docile.

I'm the king of making conservatives clutch their pearls.

I'm not a relic. I'm a revolutionary.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas—uncertainty, progress, change—into crimes.

If you were born in the United States, you have already won the lottery. If you find yourself complaining about our country, take a long trip around the world. Ensure you visit developing nations in Asia, South America, and Africa. Also visit Sociali…

Sir Arthur, I have devoted a lot of time and thought to this illusion ... I won't tell you how it was done, but I can assure you it was pure trickery. I did it by perfectly normal means. I devised it to show you what can be done along these lines. No…

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information process…