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Top 15 Bob Black Quotes (2025 Update)

Bob Black Quote: “The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.”

1. “The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.”

Bob Black Quote: “You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.”

2. “You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.”

Bob Black Quote: “Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.”

3. “Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.”

Bob Black Quote: “Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.”

4. “Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.”

Bob Black Quote: “Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.”

5. “Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.”

Bob Black Quote: “Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.”

6. “Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.”

Bob Black Quote: “The alternative to work isn’t just idleness. To be ludic is not to be quaaludic. As much as I treasure the pleasure of torpor, it’s never more rewarding than when it punctuates other pleasures and pastimes. Nor am I promoting the managed time-disciplined safety-valve called “leisure”; far from it. Leisure is nonwork for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.”

7. “The alternative to work isn’t just idleness. To be ludic is not to be quaaludic. As much as I treasure the pleasure of torpor, it’s never more rewarding than when it punctuates other pleasures and pastimes. Nor am I promoting the managed time-disciplined safety-valve called “leisure”; far from it. Leisure is nonwork for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.”

Bob Black Quote: “People aren’t as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our ‘civic duty’ to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.”

8. “People aren’t as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our ‘civic duty’ to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.”

Bob Black Quote: “I’m the out-of-court jester who won’t settle, I up the vigilante, I’m a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?”

9. “I’m the out-of-court jester who won’t settle, I up the vigilante, I’m a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?”

Bob Black Quote: “Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.”

10. “Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.”

Bob Black Quote: “I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.”

11. “I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.”

Bob Black Quote: “Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.”

12. “Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.”

Bob Black Quote: “To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.”

13. “To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.”

Bob Black Quote: “Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.”

14. “Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.”

Bob Black Quote: “Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.”

15. “Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.”

Bob Black Quote: “The only thing “free” about so-called free time is that it doesn’t cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is an euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.”

16. “The only thing “free” about so-called free time is that it doesn’t cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is an euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.”

Bob Black Quote: “But anarchism has become fashionable, especially among refugees from the left who don’t understand that anarchism isn’t a sexier version of leftism, it is what it is, it is something else entirely, it is just anarchism and it is post-leftist.”

17. “But anarchism has become fashionable, especially among refugees from the left who don’t understand that anarchism isn’t a sexier version of leftism, it is what it is, it is something else entirely, it is just anarchism and it is post-leftist.”

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