Outlaw Quotes

“If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“Like anybody can tell you, I am not a very nice man. I don't know the word. I have
always admired the villain, the outlaw, the son of a bitch. I don't like the clean-shaven
boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth
and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and
explosions. I also like vile women, drunk cursing bitches with loose stockings and
sloppy mascara faces. I'm more interested in perverts than saints. I can relax with
bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be
shaped by society.”
― Charles Bukowski, South of No North

“An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White

“I know I'm supposed to be a good girl. I know I'm supposed to be happy doing needlework samplers and baking potatoes in coal and whatnot.
But Lord, I love running from the law.”
― Saundra Mitchell, A Tyranny of Petticoats

“Interesting how some words that hold basically the same meaning can have different connotations. Take ‘outlaw’ and ‘criminal’ for instance.
‘Outlaw’ has an almost romantic, nostalgic meaning – you tend to think of Jesse James or Robin Hood when you think of outlaws. Billy the Kid has been described as both a ‘notorious outlaw’ and a ‘beloved folk hero.’
‘Criminal’ however has a completely different connotation. We think of muggers, burglars, armed robbers etc.
Nobody really wants to have a ‘criminal’ in their family tree, but the idea of having ‘outlaw blood’ is exciting and glamorous”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Who knew being married was such fun," he panted, pressing a kiss to her temple and swatting her backside simultaneously.
She pulled back to look at him, one of her rare, reluctant smiles tugging at the corner of her kiss-reddened mouth. "You probably should have done it years ago."
"Nay, lass," he said suddenly feeling very serious. "Then it wouldna have been ye.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife

“Criminals/sinners-from the Black Panthers to FBI chiefs and White House Officials-appear on the scene, make their play, and get dragged off stage, but the lawyers remain, administrating and profiting from the action and booking the next show.”
― Timothy Leary, Neuropolitique

“Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“She looked at her right hand, where the index finger was cut to a stump. Some said she lost it in an accident, when she was playing soldier with a live grenade. Others said she was taught a lesson by the law, and they took her trigger finger to make her keep on learning. Those were the lessons the Coilhunter liked. Why, he was quite the teacher himself.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

“When so-called laws outlaw humanity, we need to question whether we are or have ever been truly humane people.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“I have no roots anywhere else. I have no 'at home' but here. And I feel doomed. Like I'm riding to Hell on a fast horse. I'm not afraid of dying, but I don't want to die alone. I don't want some no one finding me finished off and asking a sheriff, 'Who's that ?”
― Ron Hansen, The Kid

“Are you even aware of hot hot and cold you are? How you seduce and then withdraw, tantalize and then retreat? Even with men you're like that. You're a mystery to people, you keep us off-balance and guessing. We have to presume what you're thinking or feeling. And instead of being frustrated we find ourselves fascinated, and we make things up about you out of our own hopes and needs and all the dangerous things we're afraid to do.”
― Ron Hansen, The Kid

“The essence of "new" is, of course, the modern version of Roman coliseum shows and gladiator combats. American civilization, for certain explicit biblical reasons, apparently requires that its leaders, its political heroes be publicly sacrificed.”
― Timothy Leary

“Just as every Hollywood picture is "put together" by producers, who are always in tight control of the enterprise and reap the lion's share of the profits, so is the Outlaw Industry managed by lawyers.”
― Timothy Leary, Neuropolitique

“I loved this man and everything-
I was about to write “and everything about him”, but I’ve stopped myself this time. In the aftermath of meeting waylon, I might well have said those words. I was blissed out, starry eyed in love. I realized that this would not be a conventional relationship because he was not a conventional man. I knew I was in for a wild ride. There could be no doubt that Waylon was a wild man.”
― Jessi Colter, An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought me Home

“Off in the distance there were galleons of shock-white cumulus coulds gathering in the wide sky's cerulean harbor, and their azure shadows floated over the flatlands. Billy surprised himself by saying: "I love it here. I'll never leave.”
― Ron Hansen, The Kid

“To recover his citizen’s rights and acquire still more new, exclusive prerogatives that would render to Laurence’s authority soul and body not just the wennies, but also the entire country, he lacked just one thing—a word. … This is the marvelous word: bandit.”
― Iliazd, Rapture: A Novel

“President Trump is the lawless President.”
― Steven Magee

“How different my life would have turned out had either one of us been born with a dick!”
― Gypsy Reed, Welcome to the Sh*tShow

“If I don’t get the f**k away from her I’m gonna go back to prison for sistercide! And I’m too young to ride the lightning down in Huntsville.”
― Gypsy Reed, Welcome to the Sh*tShow

“A lifemate. After all these centuries, after never believing. Why in the world would he be chosen for such a thing? Out of all the Carpathian males he knew, men who religiously followed the rules, why would he find a lifemate? He was practically an outlaw.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Challenge

“My love hadn’t diminished - it never would - but at times my patience was wearing thin. Waylon’s wandering ways hadn’t completely stopped and yet I remained resolute. I stayed.”
― Jessi Colter, An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought me Home

“In a world where we're all clocking in and out, Jack has torn the punch clock off the wall and burned all the cards.”
― Bronson Bigelow, LA to LA

“You can't lock me up," the man protested. "I ain't broke no law in this town."
"That's all right," Glencannon answered him. "I ain't a lawman in this town.”
― Lee Hoffman, Return To Broken Crossing

“The best way you can get what you want in life is by helping others get what they want in life...”
― Harley Bloom

“The storekeeper eyed Trey suspiciously. "You killed the two gents who owned the horses, didn't you?" he asked.

Trey turned his attention from the horses. "That's none of your affair. If I told you the truth of the matter, it wouldn't make any difference. It would only be my word against theirs, and they won't be doing any more talking.”
― Frederic Bean, Santa Fe Showdown

“Those who seek to make great fortune without making great effort will soon commit a great crime.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Freedom is a treasure one should never trade for bondage through crime.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions