"There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks."
― William S. Burroughs
Topic(s):
Society
More From William S. Burroughs
- "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 a tadpole."
- "Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
- "Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."
More In Society
- "Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society."― Shirley Manson
- "Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."― Margaret Fuller
- "People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not."― Henry Louis Gates