There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
Interpretation
Dreams are essential for a vibrant society; without them, life loses its meaning.
William S. Burroughs emphasizes the vital role that dreams play in our lives and society as a whole. He suggests that the act of dreaming fuels our aspirations, creativity, and motivation, while a lack of dreams would lead to stagnation and despair, ultimately endangering the vitality of the community.
In practice
During a motivational speech, one could use the quote to inspire the audience about the importance of dreams.
God save the Queen and a fascist regime β¦ a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
Language is a virus from outer space.
One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and donβt know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me.
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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