We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.quote by:
william burroughs (1914-1997)
quoted: t-shirt of richey EDWARDS
taken from: burroughs article 'My Mother and I Would Like to Know', published in 'Evergreen Review Reader' #67, June 1969.
original text:
[...} In Mexico, South and Central America, guerrilla units are forming an army of liberation to free the United States. In North Africa, from Tangier to Timbuktu, corresponding units prepare to liberate Western Europe and the United Kingdom. Despite disparate aims and personnel of its constituent members, the underground is agreed on basic objectives. We intend to march on the police machine everywhere. We intend to destroy the police machine and all its records. We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems. The family unit and its cancerous expansion into tribes, countries, nations, we will eradicate at its vegetable roots. We don't want to hear any more family talk, mother talk, father talk, cop talk, priest talk, country talk or party talk. To put it country simple, we have heard enough bullshit. [...]
about the quoted person:
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