Quotes About Work

That's why they pay me the medium-sized bucks.

The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that…and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing.

No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.

Will thought of her time away from work the way he used to think of his schoolteachers crawling into their caves under the school building at night, lulling themselves to sleep with dreams of torturing their students the next day.

Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

The French say you get hungry when you're eating, and I get inspired when I'm working. It's my engine

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world – both the world of men and nature – of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man's work and man's existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.

Pengabstrakan kerja dalam bentuk uang mengandaikan dialektika di antara perkerjaan/kerja yang secara sosial dibutuhkan untuk membuat barang dagangan/komoditi/jasa, dengan proses produksi kapitalisme yang justru meniadakan kerja manusia itu sendiri. Sehingga proses produksi kapitalisme dalam kelanjutannya hanya menempatkan manusia sebagai bagian dari proses akumulasi modal.

to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, [and] criticise after dinner...

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

In general, the greater the productiveness of labour, the less is the labour time required for the production of an article, the less is the amount of labour crystallised in that article, and the less is its value;

Diligence in some compels idleness in others.

For the capitalist who has others to work for him, buying and selling is a major function. Since he appropriates the product of many people, on a larger social scale, so he has also to sell on such a scale, and later to transform money back again into the elements of production. Now, as before, the time taken up with buying and selling creates no value.

No es la máquina la que trabaja, sino que se trabaja en ella, para restaurar su valor de uso.

because in the form of wages labour is bought with money, and this is taken as the characteristic feature of a 'money economy'.

A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital.

La cooperación en el proceso de trabajo, que es la forma imperante en los comienzos de la civilización, en los pueblos de cazadores,20 o en la agricultura de las comunidades indias se basa, de una parte, en la propiedad colectiva sobre las condiciones de producción y de otra parte en el hecho de, que el individuo no ha roto todavía el cordón umbilical que le une a la comunidad o a la tribu, de la que forma parte como la abeja de la colmena. Ambas

That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine.

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.