Sonny Barger Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.

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

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

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

You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but we all know 400,000 people a year die of cigarette-related deaths. How many people died of drugs, guns, automobile accidents? You add them all together it doesn't come anywhere near that. Yet they let me smoke and get cancer, and they put me in jail for having drugs. What's going on? The government don't care. It's all about money and job security.

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.

The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.