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Quick Quotes 24: Allen Ginsberg and Greed


Are Americans reduced to regaining liberty by violence? I'm convinced there's another way: organized chanting, shamanistic magic, ghost-dance rituals, massive nakedness, distribution of flowers."
--Allen Ginsberg

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
--P. J. O'Rourke

Try to break the money-property-power men of their habits and they'll act like junkies-- lie, steal, scream, live in your house, cut down forests, raze hills, sell the ground from under unborn feet."
--Allen Ginsberg