“The bourgeoisie, when it was struggling against the nobility sustained by the clergy, hoisted the flag of free thought and atheism; but once triumphant, it changed its tone and manner and today it uses religion to support its economic and political supremacy”
― The Right to Be Lazy
― The Right to Be Lazy
“Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.”
― The Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990–1990
― The Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990–1990
“Si, déracinant de son coeur le vice qui la domine et avilit sa nature, la classe ouvrière se levait dans sa force terrible, non pour réclamer les Droits de l’homme, qui ne sont que les droits de l’exploitation capitaliste, non pour réclamer le Droit au travail, qui n’est que le droit à la misère, mais pour forger une loi d’airain, défendant à tout homme de travailler plus de trois heures par jour, la Terre, la vieille Terre, frémissant d’allégresse, sentirait bondir en elle un nouvel univers…”
― Le Droit à la paresse: Réfutation du droit au travail, de 1848 [La religion du capital]
― Le Droit à la paresse: Réfutation du droit au travail, de 1848 [La religion du capital]
“I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.”
― Walden
― Walden
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