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> [Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/ten-minutes-in-a-video-store-should-convince-any-impartial-observer/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

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## More by Hakim Bey

> [Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/don-t-just-survive-while-waiting-for-someone-s-revolution-to-clear/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/only-the-dead-are-truly-smart-truly-cool-nothing-touches-them-while-i/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented and enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/the-autonomy-of-the-individual-appears-to-be-complemented-and/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [...only drugs make you feel as good as people in TV ads appear to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/only-drugs-make-you-feel-as-good-as-people-in-tv-ads-appear-to-be/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/the-dullard-finds-even-wine-tasteless-while-the-sorcerer-is/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/if-rulers-refuse-to-consider-poems-as-crimes-then-someone-must-commit/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/art-tells-gorgeous-lies-that-come-true/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/the-universe-wants-to-play-those-who-refuse-out-of-dry-spiritual/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/sorcery-the-systematic-cultivation-of-enhanced-consciousness-or-non/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [“i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/i-am-awake-only-in-what-i-love-desire-to-the-point-of-terror/)

[hakim bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/sorcery-breaks-no-law-of-nature-because-there-is-no-natural-law-only/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/the-media-of-sameness-and-separation-represent-the-world-in-its-most/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/a-tong-can-perhaps-be-defined-as-a-mutual-benefit-society-for-people/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [“Poetic Terrorism WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/poetic-terrorism-weird-dancing-in-all-night-computer-banking-lobbies/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

> [Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakim-bey/chaos-comes-before-all-principles-of-order-entropy-it-s-neither-a-god/)

[Hakim Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakim-bey/)

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