Bob Black Quotes (20 Quotes)

Wisconsin's big event for sheep producers and fiber enthusiasts is off and growing again, ... The Festival is the fastest growing event of its kind in the Midwest.

It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities. To abolish work requires going at it from two directions, quantitative and qualitative. On the one hand, on the quantitative side, we have to cut down massively on the amount of work being done. At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it. On the other hand -- and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure -- we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes, except that they happen to yield useful end-products.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

We might get there at 930 in the morning for a 1 o'clock game and then leave somewhere between 7 and 8 that night. We like to be right in front of Farley Hall, if we get there early enough.

I wouldn't take it down.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

The lessons that are going to come out of this thing are significant, but a lot of them are going to be contextual,

We give them extra-special service whenever they have an accident. We drop what we are doing to get them back on the street as soon as possible.

We've had a rivalry with them for a long time. We've been gunning for this for years. The girls were ready and they worked real hard all year.

We're going to take this one year at a time. Our kids have a lot of confidence that they can swim fast when they have to.

It has to be considered whether this (looting) was an anomaly or if this is what we could see in another North American city.

This can't be good for the boating association.

He was a mechanic, he was a writer, he really worked his way up in racing.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

Normally, when he wants to get someone elected, he calls me.

I know it's our year. We're gonna take the fifth ring.

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.