Bob Black Quotes

#1. Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

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#2. A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.

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#3. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

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#4. People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

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#5. Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

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#6. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. 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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#7. 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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#8. The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

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#9. I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

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#10. Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

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#11. Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

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#12. Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

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#13. 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?

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#14. 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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