5 William S. Burroughs Quotes on Freedom

William S. Burroughs quotes on freedom

9. Cut word lines - Cut music lines - Smash the control images - Smash the control machine - Burn the books - Kill the priests - Kill! Kill! Kill!

11. Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

12. There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

17. America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

42. Son, never listen to a priest or a policeman...the only thing they have is the key to the shithouse.