Work Quotes

The daily grind, the creative struggle, and why what we do matters more than we think.

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"The most beautiful thing a man can achieve is to love his work."
Simón Bolívar
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"Capital is dead labour that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour."
Karl Marx
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"The more the worker produces, the less he has to consume."
Karl Marx
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"Man makes himself through labour."
Karl Marx
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"The more of his life a man attributes to labour, the less he attributes to himself."
Karl Marx
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"The more the division of labour develops, the more does labour become modified."
Karl Marx
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"Industry has set the stage for its own supersession."
Karl Marx
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"Without rough drafts, no polished product."
Karl Marx
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"Society cannot exist without the worker."
Karl Marx
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"The division of labor has made the individual a one-sided individual."
Karl Marx
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"The intellectuals of an ascending class must be organizers of production before becoming legislators."
Antonio Gramsci
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"The production of consciousness is itself a form of material production."
Antonio Gramsci
"The worker of the future will be both a thinker and a doer, combining mental and manual labor."
Friedrich Engels
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"Work, when free from coercion, becomes a source of joy."
Michel Bakunin
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"Work should dignify the worker, not degrade them."
Michel Bakunin
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"Work that feeds the soul is rarer than work that feeds the body"
Emma Goldman
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"Work should be a source of joy and creativity, not servitude."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Work expresses the worker's humanity; theft of its fruits steals that humanity."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour."
Karl Marx
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"In the end, everything comes down to the labor of the worker."
Karl Marx
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"Quantity of labour has become the only measure of value."
Karl Marx
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"The process of production has a dual character corresponding to the dual character of labour."
Karl Marx
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"The circulation of money is the endless activity of the commodity-owner."
Karl Marx
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"The worker becomes alienated from the products of his own labor."
Karl Marx
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"All commodities are nothing but congealed labor-time."
Karl Marx
"The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing."
Friedrich Engels
"The division of labor is the silent war of all against all."
Friedrich Engels
"The working man has no country."
Friedrich Engels
"The working class must become conscious of its own power."
Friedrich Engels
"All profit contains within it unpaid labor."
Friedrich Engels