The system works because you work.
Istari Lasterfahrer’s album’s title
#394
But man is to such an extent partial to a system and an abstract conclusion that he is prepared deliberately distort the truth, prepared to see nothing and to hear nothing, simply in order to justify his logic.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From the Underground
#201
But do not be afraid. The Mind Grinding and Oppression Machine (…), choking and wheezing with its own enormity, gets jammed and broken more and more often. Somewhere in a System bowels a new Snake Plissken is born. The fight goes on.
Obuh Records, description of Job Karma – Punkt album
#188
When the workers are too weak to fight, the terror-based system arises.
Solidarity letter from Polish to Italian FIAT workers
#186
If being a nihilist, is carrying, to the unbearable limit of hegemonic systems, this radicaltrait of derision and of violence, this challenge that the system is summoned to answer through its own death, then I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are withtheir weapons.
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
#180
To protest in the name of morality against “excesses” or “abuses” is an error which hints at active complicity. There are no “abuses” or “excesses” here, simply an all-pervasive system.
Simone de Beauvoir