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Politics Quotes by William S. Burroughs

14 Politics quotes by William S. Burroughs

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Even with a modest tally, Burroughs’ 14 political lines cut deep, reflecting his rebellious spirit and unconventional style. This collection serves as a compact entry point for readers curious about how the Beat icon viewed power, control, and society.

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If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

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Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

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All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

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“The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government . . .”

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All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

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[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.

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I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under…

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I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure…

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There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power,…

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If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't…

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All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers…

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To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the…

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“Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South…

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“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.”

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“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.”

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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

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For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.…

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When you stop growing you start dying.

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Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .…

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When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

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“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing…

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“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild…

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“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,…

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You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow…

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[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

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“It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.”

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