42 Quotations by William S. Burroughs
- 1. A functioning police state needs no police.
- 2. A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- 3. Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that ...
- 4. After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I s ...
- 5. After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
- 6. America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. T ...
- 7. America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. T ...
- 8. America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. T ...
- 9. America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wip ...
- 10. Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
- 11. Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implemen ...
- 12. Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most ef ...
- 13. Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they h ...
- 14. Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
- 15. Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
- 16. I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio ...
- 17. I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
- 18. I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an ...
- 19. In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
- 20. Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too pr ...
William S. Burroughs Quotes by Power Quotations
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