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States Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- A functioning police state needs no police.
- Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is…
- Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.
- The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain…
- I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the…
- My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur