In Defense of Anagorism

political economy in the non-market, non-state sector

Category: quotations

  • Quotations with links

    Quotations with links

    “In order to get a walkable community you need density, and in order to get more density you need a regional mass transit system. It just boggles my mind that an area this size doesn’t have mass transit.”–Jana Ecker

    “The only college degrees worth having are in the ‘thousand year old professions’ such as law, architecture, civil engineering, medicine.”–John Lawrence

    “Politicians, industrial managers, academic administrators, and other leaders often say that innovation is critical to the future of civilization, our country, their company, etc. But in practice, these same people often act as if innovation is an evil that must be suppressed, or at least tightly controlled.”–Ronald B. Standler

    (ideology: where you no longer have ideas but the ideas have you).–precari-punx

    “When someone acts as a Roman in Rome, it doesn’t promote Rome. It promotes itself.”–Sharon Golan

    Keep the aspidistra flying!

  • More quotations with links

    “For the transhumanist movement to grow and become a serious challenge to their opposites, the bio-Luddites, they will need to distance themselves from their elitist anarcho-capitalist roots and clarify commitments to liberal democratic institutions, values and public policies.”–James Hughes Ph.D.

    “In Greek ‘necessity’- anangke, serves also as the word for ‘force,’ ‘constraint,’ ‘compulsion,’ ‘violence,’ and ‘duress.’”–Earl Shorris quoted by Jack Saturday

    “Although their effect is similar, the economic laws which come into operation in an exchange economy such as capitalism are not natural laws, since they arise out of a specific set of social relationships existing between human beings.”–Alan Johnstone

    “Sure we need to survive, but let’s acknowledge the desperation under this drive to take everything we do, are or think and try to get cash for it. It reminds me of a young child who shows her father a drawing. He playfully offers her a dollar for it and 15 minutes later she comes back with 5 more. What got lost there in between the first spontaneous artwork and the 5 subsequent calculated ones?”–szoutewelle

    “Although some might disagree with me, I think the biopunk movement is pro-clone. Anything to change the way humans breed is a Good Thing. It gets us out of the mommy-daddy-baby continuum.”–Annalee Newitz

    “There is no third party payment scheme that allows me to ignore the fact that your time is ‘worth’ over twenty times per hour more than what I earn when I am working in the employ of others.”–Roger N. Meyer

    “I remember reading up on Carlyle in the months following 911. It was the firm that both the Bushes and bin Ladens held stock in. The private ownership dynamic certainly has had negative consequences for the public.”–Bretton Jones

    Keep the aspidistra flying!

  • More interesting quotations with links

    “inquiry into the criminal question made plain that the great mass of crimes are crimes against property; even those crimes arising from jealousy are property crimes resulting from the notion of a right of property in flesh. Allowing property to be eradicated, both in practice and in spirit, no crimes are left but such are the acts of the mentally sick.”–Voltairine De Cleyre

    “One wonders how long such a system can last since most kleptocracies fail, bloodily, when there is no more wealth to loot. The powerful leave, and poor fight each other for what’s left.”–Kvatch

    “Death To Memes! Up With People!”–William

    “When the working class unites, there will be a lot of jobless labor leaders.”–Eugene Debs

    “…you do what your boss says because you’ve become dependent on your job…”–anon.(?)

    “Look at the development of Christian theology: the paradox of salvation by good works versus salvation by faith would never exist had Christianity greater respect for critical thought.”–Jason

    Keep the aspidistra flying!