"Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work."

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Source : "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor". Book by William Julius Wilson, 1996.

William Julius Wilson

#Work Quotes #Organization Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true about ourselves, something other people can see even if we don't. â€”Bobby Goodspeed”
“We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.”
“There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right.”
“You want to stay alive in a zombie swarm? You go alone or in a small group, where everyone is of similar physical condition and weapons training. You never stop, you never hesitate, and you never show any mercy for the people that would slow you down.That is what the military says we should do, and if I ever meet anybody who listens to that particular set of commands, I may shoot them myself just to improve the gene pool. When you can help people stay alive, you help them. We're all we've got.”
“When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.”
“In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.”
“though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.”
“The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature.”

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