William S. Burroughs Quotes

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

William S. Burroughs

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• Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Play

• The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Together
  • Ambition
  • Politician

• Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Important
  • Business

• I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • People
  • Live
  • Realizing

• No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Children
  • Doe
  • Politician

• Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Good
  • Country
  • American

• A lot of people put a lot of restrictions on their ability to develop. And that's fine for you if that's what you feel your limitations are, but I think it's wrong when you assume someone is not natural because you are imposing your limitations on someone else.

  

  Kai Greene
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Assuming

• Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

  

  Anne Carson
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Children
  • School
  • Kind

• The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Die
  • Politics
  • Politician

• A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Person
  • Succeed

• The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Reason
  • Politician

• Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Job
  • Trump
  • Politician

• [We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Progress
  • Liberty
  • Assuming

• The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Man
  • Thinks
  • Efficient

• (Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor. ... They can't think what else to do.

  

  Frederick W. Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Wall
  • Politician

• Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • President
  • Vote

• The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Teaching
  • Vote
  • Politician

• I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Book
  • Career

• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Danger
  • France

• I will definitely drop bars, but that's, like, a few minutes of my show. I do a part of my set where I do that, and then I'll get back to the jokes. All the older people will look like, 'What the hell is happening?' The younger people are cheering, and the older people are like, 'I'm scared. I don't know what's going on.'

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • People

• Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Politician
  • Assuming
  • Efficient