#con

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#been #confuses #create #desire #enemy

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#consume #consuming #cycle #hellish #survive

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#camera #control #during #films #i

The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. ↗

— Stuart Varney

#chrysler #control #controls #future #gm

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#certain #certain ways #certainly #considering #damaging

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#born #ceased #conceived #dissension #distress

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#basis #community #conspicuous #consumption #gaining

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#being #believe #conquered #happy #heart

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#arms #bear #citizens #constitution #equation

I got to fight every second, every minute and every round. ↗

— Rau'Shee Warren

#every second #fight #got #i #minute