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“We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only -- 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'.”
― Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies

“Music, rhythm, rigadoon, without end, for no reason.”
― Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

“We dabble in many things; but the one great real idea of our age, not copied from any other, not pretended, not raised to life by any conjuration, is the Much Making of Things – not the making of beautiful things, not the joy of spending living energy in creative work; rather the shameless, merciless driving and over-driving, wasting and draining of the last bit of energy, only to produce heaps and heaps of things – things ugly, things harmful, things useless, and at the best largely unnecessary.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre, The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

“[F]or the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre, The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader