Eric Arnold

“Instead, it is because we have invented a bizarre sadomasochistic dialectic whereby we feel that pain in the workplace is the only possible justification for our furtive consumer pleasures, and, at the same time, the fact that our jobs thus come to eat up more and more of our waking existence means that we do not have the luxury of - as Kathi Weeks has so concisely put it - "a life," and that, in turn, means that furtive consumer pleasures are the only ones we have time to afford.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“I am God to the cells that compose me.”
― Charles Fort

“We need a material analysis, buttressed with a sense of humor and a recognition of human fallibility, that connects the fight for a better world to the immediate interests of the majority of the population.”
― Michael Brooks, Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right

“The worker who becomes a policeman in the service of the capitalist state is a bourgeois cop, not a worker.”
― Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It