Quote by Lester Bangs
Its much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists

Its much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. – Lester Bangs

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They wouldnt be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldnt be heroes if they werent miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again. – Lester Bangs

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As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. – Lester Bangs

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The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. – Lester Bangs

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Im not involved in politics any more and theyre quite right. – Jeffrey Archer

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Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible. – Ben Okri

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