In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan…

Quote by William S Burroughs

Topics: Government Quotes

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by...

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by...

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people...

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people...

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up...

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up...

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never...

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never...

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes...

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes...

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall...

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall...

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of...

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of...

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in...

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in...

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind...

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind...

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an...

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an...

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.

I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Genius is born, not paid.

Genius is born, not paid.