Bob Black on application
Bob Black11 quotes“Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.”
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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 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 Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
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.
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
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Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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Humility is practical application of knowledge.
Radhanath SwamiRadhanath Swami Application of humility is service.
Radhanath SwamiRadhanath Swami I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
PetrarchPetrarch It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
Samuel SmilesSamuel Smiles The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Jean GenetJean Genet Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville