There couldn't be a society of people who didn't d... -William S. Burroughs

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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

William S. Burroughs , Writer
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William S. Burroughs Quotes to Explore

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 designed to remain...
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality....
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to b...
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war....
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape....
Language is a virus from outer space....
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'...
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical....
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing....
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear....

Society Quotes to Explore

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy....
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries....
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership...
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of ...
Australia has an increasingly multicultural society....
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own sufferi...
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day....
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere....
There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in ...
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society....