The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.
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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why
deprive somebody who really loves it.
I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why
deprive somebody who really loves it.
A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.
A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that read more
When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us.
Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to read more
Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it
is the spirit behind your actions and read more
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it
is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner
state.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when read more
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our
rewards will always be in read more
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our
rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
