Sonny Barger Quotes

#1. I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

John Milius

#2. Try to remember the reason you started riding a motorcycle in the first place. For me, it was a couple of things but mostly rebellion.

Sonny Barger

#3. Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad.

Sonny Barger

#4. To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.

Paulo Coelho

#5. I don't think drugs should be illegal. I'm not an advocate of everybody running out and using drugs, but I think the drug wars are not working, there's millions and millions of dollars being spent on the drug war that we're never going to win.

Sonny Barger

#6. You can't lie down when people come on to use you, you have to stand up for your rights too.

Sonny Barger

#7. Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.

Bill Vaughan

#8. The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.

Sonny Barger

#9. I think everybody should have the choice [with drugs] the same as helmets. You should be able to say whether you want to wear one or not. By making drugs illegal, the government is intervening into our lives a little too much.

Sonny Barger

#10. I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death.

Sonny Barger

#11. (It's worth noting that the traditional Irish phrase to wish someone well, "Top o' the morning to you," has its origin in the dairy world; "the top" refers to the richest, loveliest part, as cream is at the top of milk.)

Elaine Khosrova

#12. Nourish your heart in My promises and laugh at your impossibilities, and the miracle will be birthed in your heart.

Brian Simmons

#13. If you lie down and let somebody kick you, you're never going to get nowhere. You have to stand up.

Sonny Barger

#14. Find your speed, maintain your velocity, keep it up, keep it consistent, and stay in the pocket.

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#15. I now understand the whole jumping on the couch and punching the floor thing. I don't know how to express how I feel! Where's Oprah?

Jamie McGuire

#16. Don't ever hit a person first, but if anybody ever puts their hands on you, you hit them right between the eyes.

Sonny Barger

#17. Treat people the way you want to be treated. When they don't treat you back that way, react. React to everything.

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#18. I can honestly say and swear on my patch that I have never in my life hurt anybody that I really didn't feel had it coming, because they was either trying to hurt me or my friends. If everybody was like that it [life] would be real different.

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#19. I don't believe in God. I believe something is happening, I'm not sure what it is.

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#20. The greatest thing that I have learned is probably the simplest thing any of us can learn: I am who I am.

Sonny Barger

#21. My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.

Sonny Barger

#22. The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch.

Sonny Barger

#23. I always look ahead, to the side, but never back.

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#24. We've got thousands and thousands of people in jail on minor drug violations and they really don't need to be in jail. They're people whose lives are ruined. If drugs were legal there would be a lot less people using them.

Sonny Barger

#25. There's the difference between hardcore motorcycle riders and people who own motorcycles. Some people ride'em and some people trailer'em.

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#26. He reaches down and tugs his pant leg up. The gold cuff wrapped around his ankle is decorated with Smurf stickers. One of the other collectors did this after I crashed last night. Can you believe that mess? I can't get the damn things off.

Victoria Scott

#27. Treat me good, I'll treat you better, treat me bad and I'll treat you worse.

Sonny Barger

#28. When you are a member of an organization, life isn't only about you. As part of a circle of people who depend on one another, you watch one another's back and remain loyal to the concept of brotherhood.

Sonny Barger

#29. I'm not a deeply religious person and I don't really know if there's a God or not and I don't really even care, but something out there has got to control something. Because people can put a gun in their mouth and pull the trigger and live and someone else can slip on the curb and die.

Sonny Barger

#30. Joining a band of brothers together, a group with one common interest or mission, whether as a company, a team, or a motorcycle club, requires not only a commitment to loyalty but an understanding of self-preservati on as well..

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#31. Children become like the things they love.

Maria Montessori

#32. You don't see people in prison treating each other the way people do on the outside, and the reason is that if you're rude to somebody in prison, you get killed.

Sonny Barger