Antiproductive Quotes

#1. Social power is the power over nature, the living standards achieved by men in mutual exchange. State power, as we have seen, is the coercive and parasitic seizure of this production - a draining of the fruits of society for the benefit of nonproductive (actually antiproductive) rulers.

Murray N. Rothbard

#2. If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

C.S. Lewis

#3. As it stands, our patrols and bases are just targets, and the more firepower we use, the more enemies we make.

Daniel Suarez

#4. Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

Garth Hudson

#5. I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#6. I have heard from Pramod that you do not hanker after fame. The truth is all you seek. Ha, ha!

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

#7. Word of advice - don't let your father choose your wife. Choose your own. You have to live with her. Your father doesn't.

Leanne Banks

#8. That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.

Victoria Moran

#9. Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.

Francois Guizot

#10. Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#11. But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song.

Ilchi Lee

#12. You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Bertrand Meyer

#13. , I have a friend living as a woman. But she's almost too "normal," to be quite frank. I'm not relying on her, because "The Jerry Springer Show" has such huge characters. I'm trying to come up with a little more dysfunction than that.

Max Von Essen

#14. I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi ... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.

Ron Carlson