Quotes About Warehoused

Books are bulky and inconvenient—like rocks, and trees, and rivers, and life. It occurs to me that everything that can be said against the inconvenience of books can be said about the inconvenience of children. They too take up space, are of no immediate practical use, are of interest to only a few people, and present all kinds of problems. They too must be warehoused efficiently, and brought with as little resistance as possible into the Digital Age.

Our technology was a phone, a pencil and pad of paper," Pavitt reveals. "For our first year, our records were warehoused in the bathroom, so you'd have to step over Superfuzz Bigmuff to take a piss.

One million young black men now warehoused in decaying prisons, idling away the days at taxpayer expense. Our prisons are packed. Our streets

But today there is still a more onerous meaning to "surplus population." They are not only potential sources of cheaper labor, but also, as cast-offs are fodder to become kept humans, profitable for being warehoused, bodies as raw material for profit. This, in fact, is the logic of the private prisons we have already discussed.