Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPolitical conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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