Figure Work

Famous quotes containing the words figure and/or work:

    “All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    “Those who work their minds rule; those who work with their backs are ruled.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    Mencius.