
“Competition is merely the absence of oppression.”
Economic harmonies, par. 10.4.
“Competition is merely the absence of oppression.”
Economic harmonies, par. 10.4.
“To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.”
A True Mensch - Obituary to Marek Edelman by David Rosenberg http://thethirdestate.net/2009/10/a-true-mensch/
“Order it wrong and choice is oppressive; order it right and it’s liberating.”
Source: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006), Ch. 10, p. 174
"A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role" in The Observer (29 June 1958)
Context: Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.
2000s, 2005, Second Inaugural Address (January 2005)
“Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.”
Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies ( p. 43 http://books.google.com/books?id=mKs-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Dogma+does+not+mean+the+absence+of+thought+but+the+end+of+thought%22&pg=PA43#v=onepage)
The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
“Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.”