I’m the out-of-court jester who won’t settle, I up the vigilante, I’m a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?
BOB BLACKYou are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous.
More Bob Black Quotes
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Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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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.
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Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, “one can at least change jobs,” but you can’t avoid having a job.
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Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
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A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
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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.
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You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous.
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To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.
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Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
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Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
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You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
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It’s apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him.
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