English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

What was behind this smug presumption that what pleased you was bad or at least unimportant in comparison to other things? …

Little children were trained not to do “just what they liked’ but … but what? … Of course! What others liked. And which others? Parents, teachers, supervisors, policemen, judges, officials, kings, dictators. All authorities.

When you are trained to despise “just what you like” then, of course, you become a much more obedient servant of others — a good slave. When you learn not to do “just what you like” then the System loves you.

Robert M. Pirsig

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

[Farmer] went to dozens of American and Canadian universities and colleges, preaching his O for the P [Preferential Option for the Poor] gospel, and to South Africa, where he debated a World Bank official at an international AIDS conference. "Africans must learn to curb their sexual appetites," the banker remarked, and Farmer replied, "I want to talk about other bankers, not the World Bankers, but bankers in general. My suspicion is they're not getting a lot of sex, because they spend a lot... Tracy Kidder
Judd Nelson quote: "When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the..."
When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play. Judd Nelson
Beck quote: "Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way."
Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way. Beck
Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way. Caroline Wozniacki
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes. Orson Scott Card
Marion Cotillard quote: "An artist is maybe not always having a normal life."
An artist is maybe not always having a normal life. Marion Cotillard
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture. Orrin Hatch
Ken Hill quote: "The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a..."
The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal. Ken Hill
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will..."
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. Katherine Anne Porter
Raised to believe that her life would be, as her great-grandmother's was said to have been, one ceaseless round of fixed and settled principles, aims, motives, and activity, she could sometimes think of nothing to do but walk downtown, check out the Bon Marche for clothes she could not afford, buy a cracked crab for dinner and take a taxi home. Joan Didion
And on the pedestal these words appear:'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decay. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare. The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. Frederick Pollock
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. James H. Breasted
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . . Wallace Stegner
As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are. Lance Loud