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Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics

by Edith Wharton

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Dec 29, 2018 06:33AM

“Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.”
― Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies

tags: employment, freedom, wealth

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“Alle Kraft der Menschen wird erworben durch Kampf mit sich selbst und Überwindung seiner selbst.”
― Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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“The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.”
― Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies

tags: culture, employment, society

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“The English Language is a form of communication! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings. What is true in love, is equally true at law”
― Phillip Roth

tags: bombs, communication, english-language

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“We dabble in many things; but the one great real idea of our age, not copied from any other, not pretended, not raised to life by any conjuration, is the Much Making of Things – not the making of beautiful things, not the joy of spending living energy in creative work; rather the shameless, merciless driving and over-driving, wasting and draining of the last bit of energy, only to produce heaps and heaps of things – things ugly, things harmful, things useless, and at the best largely unnecessary.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre, The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

tags: capitalism, materialism

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