William S. Burroughs Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Victory, Purpose

  "The Place of Dead Roads".

• 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 be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Games, Principles

  "The War Universe". Grand Street, No. 37, 1991.

• Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity -
  what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented
  horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores,
  the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

  William S. Burroughs

  Christian, War, Charity

• The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Police, Drug

  Source: www.litkicks.com

• Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

  William S. Burroughs

  Powerful, War, Knowing

  "Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (A One God Universe)". Studio album by William S. Burroughs with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, September 28, 1993.

• Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

  William S. Burroughs

  Meaningful, War, Player

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.124, Arcade Publishing

• All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Writing, Marijuana

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Moving, Men

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Games, May

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

• All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Creative, Political

  Source: realitystudio.org

• In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Men, Birth Rate

  Source: realitystudio.org

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