Jon Hopkins Quotes

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

Human beings have a right to change their consciousness, and it is unconscionable and absolutely wrong for any government or any person to stand in the way of someone choosing to change their consciousness.

Drugs don't have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in that direction, and the use of psychoactive drugs clearly is one path that has helped many people.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

I am a believer in liberty. That is my religion — to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right — because it is his right — but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge — in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

It's a human right to be able to have a relationship.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed.

I want to follow my path.

Everyone has the right to their own opinion.

You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.