"The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief."

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Source : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.98, Cosimo Classics

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#Receiving Quotes #Thieves Quotes #Parasites Quotes

“Habits form a second nature.”

Source : Philosophie Zoologique pt. 2, ch. 7 (1809)
“I saw young women in the street dressing in a way that I thought was influencing the designers. Fashion was being influenced by all sorts of different people, and culture and also across the street. So I saw more as a trickle up, than a trickle down influence. When I came to Vogue, that's what I wanted it to reflect.”
“I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.”
“It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.”

Source : "Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture". Book by Jeremy Rifkin, 1992.
“Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.”
“I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.”
“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”
“When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.”

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