Quote

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

Ken Kesey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
La Junta
Colorado
Kenneth Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey
Ken Elton Kesey
Ken E. Kesey
O. U. Levon
Weak
Based
Friend
Cuckoos
Existence
Devouring
Getting
Flew
Strong
Ritual
World
Belongs
Stronger

More quotes by Ken Kesey

Image
Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey
Image
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, The fit is momentary.
Ken Kesey
Image
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?
Ken Kesey
Image
Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
Ken Kesey
Image
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Ken Kesey
Image
What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.
Ken Kesey
Image
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey
Image
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
Ken Kesey
Image
His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
Ken Kesey
Image
The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
Ken Kesey
Image
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey
Image
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
Ken Kesey
Image
What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
Ken Kesey
Image
There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.
Ken Kesey
Image
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Ken Kesey
Image
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
Ken Kesey
Image
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
Ken Kesey
Image
If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?
Ken Kesey
Image
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
Ken Kesey
Image
I've never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don't know anything about them. I don't know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.
Ken Kesey