4 William S. Burroughs Quotes on Politics

William S. Burroughs quotes on politics

5. A functioning police state needs no police. (p. 31)

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.

18. Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.