Quotes About Work

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored 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 laborers.

Le royaume de la liberté commence seulement là où l'on cesse de travailler par nécessité.

Le travailleur tombe dans le paupérisme, et le paupérisme s'accroît plus rapidement encore que la population et la richesse

En nuestra sociedad los que trabajan no adquieren y los que adquieren no trabajan.

All commodities, as values, are realized human labours.

también el proletariado, esa clase obrera moderna que sólo puede vivir encontrando trabajo y que sólo encuentra trabajo en la medida en que éste alimenta a incremento el capital. El obrero, obligado a venderse a trozos, es una mercancía como otra cualquiera, sujeta, por tanto, a todos los cambios y modalidades de la concurrencia, a todas las fluctuaciones del mercado.

It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.

In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—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. These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

La burguesía … ha creado fuerzas productivas mucho más colosales y masivas que todas las pasadas generaciones juntas, …¿Cuál de los pasados siglos pudo sospechar siquiera que en el seno del trabajo social dormitasen tantas y tales fuerzas productivas?

The proletariat, a class of laborers,who live only so long as they find work,and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital. These laborers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity,like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured an 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.

Are you at work? I asked. Not precisely, but that's a good suggestion....

We're just cogs in a machine really, aren't we? Miss Fawcett said to her and Ursula said, But remember, without the cog there is no machine.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man's livelihood.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.