"Leisure is non-work for the sake of work.……" — Bob Black
"Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work."
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18 Quotes by Bob Black
Bob Black has 18 quotes on this site.
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I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
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[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most…
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... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without…
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Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian…
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Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes,…
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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…
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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…
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes…
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People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to…
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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
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