"Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing……" — Thomas Szasz
"Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around."
Related Quotes
- Working gets in the way of living. — Omar Sharif
- Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools. — Lord Salisbury
- Politics is social work with power. — Barbara Mikulski
- In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed. — Morton Blackwell
- People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place. — Jim Talent
- Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. — Mao Zedong
- The work is getting the work. — Elizabeth Pena
- Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. — Oscar Wilde
- Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment. — Wendy Wasserstein
- The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of… — Helen Keller
85 Quotes by Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a…
- Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity;…
- I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and…
- We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so…
- If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is…
- Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his…
- We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling…
- Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and…
- Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have…
- Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a…
- Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
- Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a…
More Matter Around Quotes
This quote is filed under Matter Around Quotes, one of 3 quotes in that category. Here are a few more: