Book Quote by William S. Burroughs

It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some…

— William S. Burroughs

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

— William S. Burroughs

“Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.”

— Paulo Coelho

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

— Lionel Jospin

There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.

— Rick Moody

“The censors of our age do not yet burn books, they attempt to restrict speech in the name of "offense". The tactics may be…

— Carmine Savastano

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected…

— Orrin Hatch

State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in which a…

— Henry Giroux

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime…

— Albert Camus

“misguided propaganda on infant feeding should be punished as the most miserable form of sedition, and that these deaths should be regarded as murder.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law…

— Charles Dickens