A functioning police state needs no police.
William S. Burroughs
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GREG A. MULLINS We gotta find a way off this goddamn cop-ridden planet.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I'm tired of living in a police state.
L. NEIL SMITH We've met with the Salinas Police Department, and they just can't meet our needs 100 percent.
GENE THOMPSON It's more intimidating with the State Police here.
EVANGEL MALDONADO You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are ...
NICK HANAUER They were using people with no police training and no certification - there wasn't one real police o...
BRIAN FOOR They're just going overboard. This is police-state strategy.
FRANK MITCHELL Police services all over the state are being reduced.
MIKE BLACK A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY One bad police officer makes a whole department and state look bad.
DAVE KINNEY It started in a Pennsylvania town when police spotted the car with a stolen tag. Trooper 4 [the stat...
JEFF OLDHAM As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a pol...
GORE VIDAL There is no police brutality.
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if ...
THERESA MAY The commissioners were elected to represent us. We've had petitions to keep our police force. Our ne...
LINDA RYAN He has made a number of statements to police, but the (Huntley) hearing will be about the statements...
BROOKS BAKER It is obvious that the government wants to continue this police state.
GEORGE ISHAQ It is the common peoples duty to police the police.
STEVEN MAGEE Some of the people in the crowd threw rocks and bottles at the police, but no police were injured.
ENRIQUE GARCIA It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
BRUCE SCHNEIER If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willful...
STEVEN MAGEE Other questions will relate to co-locating the police and courts in the same facility, space for hol...
CARROLL BURACKER Surrender is no guarantee that an armed police officer will not shoot you.
STEVEN MAGEE While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the ...
STEVEN MAGEE To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste ...
ELIA KAZAN The joint investigation, which includes Northborough police and fire, and State Police assigned to t...
JENNIFER MIETH If you want to make the police uncomfortable, all you need to do is ask this question: How many comp...
STEVEN MAGEE Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and pena...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled;...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time...
KARAN JOHAR There appears to have been no operational police response,
FRANK ARMSTRONG You know that when a police officer refuses to produce formal identification on request, they are pr...
STEVEN MAGEE A giant motherboard of geese,
unruffled by the state
police, swarmed in unison,
in ha...
KRISTEN HENDERSON Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a moder...
AHMET SEZNER There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wis...
EARL WARREN and he went around the police and the police didn't like it and the police stopped him. End of story...
JAMES MEEKS We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, ...
WILLIAM BAILEY When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand...
STEVEN MAGEE You have over 30,000 police officers in this state that are watching this case very closely.
ERIC STOLTENBERG Police officers seem nice until they start targeting you for stops, give you a bogus speeding ticket...
STEVEN MAGEE We have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISON There is no strike. Everybody is at his duty post. We are in touch with all state police commissione...
HAZ IWENDI America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United Sta...
RUDY GIULIANI America, ... needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the Unite...
RUDY GIULIANI In the state of Georgia, I am a certified peace officer. I'm just not currently working for a police...
RICHARD JEWELL Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too.
RUMI We will resolve these matters through dialogue when we are in government. All I can say is no police...
ISMAIL HANIYEH Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every wee...
JAMES MCGREEVEY He was unaware that he had done anything wrong whatsoever, because he, in fact, calls the police. He...
DICK HARPOOTLIAN We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
AL SHARPTON You’re full of it. It’s not against the law to run.”
“Yes it is. Especially for us.
KENNETH EADE We contacted the state police just so there were no issues saying that we overstepped our boundaries...
JEFFREY HEWETT We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISON Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a m...
AHMET NECDET SEZNER Corporate media rarely reports the fact that police internal affairs uphold hardly any complaints fr...
STEVEN MAGEE It's the same old stubborn regime playing the same old tricks. This is a police state and they don't...
GAMEELA ISMAIL My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughl...
C.S. LEWIS The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.
RONNIE BARKER when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
COLIN KAEPERNICK No one is above the law, not the police, not the rich,
CHRISTOPHER DARDEN I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.
IVICA DACIC When it is a law abiding common person versus the police internal affairs regarding a corrupt or inc...
STEVEN MAGEE We're not saying that there is something (criminal) that happened. We don't know. There needs to be ...
ANNETTE SINGLETARY Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a pho...
DOREEN CRONIN Police will be deployed in terms of a needs and risk analysis and where possible, also in those area...
CAPTAIN DENNIS ADRIAO It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in...
FELIX FRANKFURTER The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defe...
PAUL H. KING Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulti...
BYRON R. WHITE My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talkin...
FREDERICK DONALD COGGAN The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an in...
EDWIN MEESE III The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect...
JEFF COOPER So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering...
LUCY PARSONS Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him n...
THURGOOD MARSHALL [Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams told CNN Rader does not yet have an attorney.] He'll probably ...
NORMAN WILLIAMS He didn't have a weapon. He didn't try to run away. He did nothing that could cause the police to ba...
MAXINE WATERS He was no more than a street thug in a police uniform, the likes of which this city has never seen b...
BARRY LEVIN I did not bother the police with the matter because after a process of elimination, I believe it is ...
DR. CLAUDIE BIGGERS There's alibi witnesses other than Charlene, and there's phone records. These are the reasons why th...
MICHAEL DERISO At the last meeting, I was opposed to the expenditures at the Police Department,
RICHARD MATHESON We are calling on the public to understand the role of the police, and we want them to enjoy themsel...
WINSTON COOPER We felt that Mr. Turner was unjustly killed at the hands of the police department and somebody neede...
AL ALSTON I also talked to Salinas police, and they have requested we do this for the investigation.
ADRIENNE LAURENT The police do a great job with limited resources and budget but they can only handle the really seri...
ALAN BRILL The accused is wanted by the Bihar Police in more than a dozen cases and he was arrested when he cam...
AJAY KUMAR They can't possibly police that many profiles.
ALLAN KUSH The police told me that it was a BB gun pellet impression that caused small cracks to 'spider web' u...
ALLAN EVANGELISTA Luckily the police saw what was going on and stopped it.
ALMA VAN DRUNICK Luckily police noticed what was going on.
ALMA VAN DRUNICK Luckily police managed to notice what was going on.
ALMA VAN DRUNICK There was some consolation for them in that the person responsible was still on scene when police ar...
ANDY BURGESS The police officer said he couldn't believe anyone would do something like that.
WILLIAM SHANER If (they) had seen the police officers, everything would be safe.
ANDRES AVILA The only question is: are the files held by the police -- which are partly accessible to all police ...
ANDREAS SCHURIG We were in a black hole. There was nothing. The generator at the police department broke down. For a...
BEN MORRIS It all went very well. We have been working with Surrey police for several weeks to ensure thing wen...
BARRY JONES The police have arrested the perpetrators behind the shootings of American nationals in 2002.
ANTON BAHRUL ALAM The police have collected evidence and testimony that supports the allegation.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is true, everything is permitted
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of fink...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a to...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and pena...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, be...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people...
WILLIAM S BURROUGHS Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any str...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the fr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, a...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Exterminate all rational thought
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not the facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?
His whole abdomen ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." Th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway said:
'It don't come anymore.'
So where did it go?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS