Bob Black on anarchy
Bob Black11 quotes“Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.”
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Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
Bob BlackBob Black Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
Bob BlackBob Black Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
Bob BlackBob Black Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
Bob BlackBob Black Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
Bob BlackBob Black Just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can’t avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.
Bob BlackBob Black You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous.
Bob BlackBob Black Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
Bob BlackBob Black Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
Bob BlackBob Black You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
Bob BlackBob Black
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Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
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The main question … is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
Ben JonsonBen Jonson And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonBarbara Grizzuti Harrison Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
Will DurantWill Durant