Work Quotes

"The division of labor is a source of both progress and oppression."

"Labor under capitalism is alienated labor."

"Competition between workers is beneficial only to capital."

"Self-realization is only possible through meaningful work."

"The worker is doubly enslaved: by capital and by necessity."

"I am not concerned with the happiness of the world, but with my duty."

"Work is the only thing that makes life endurable."

"Work is the human transformation of nature."

"Labor creates value and transforms consciousness."

"Property is the externalization of personality."

"To be idle and slothful is the greatest dishonor"

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do your best today"

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

"The work that ennobles is the work that is chosen freely and pursued with passion."

"Work that lacks passion is merely the sale of one's time for mere survival."

"One should not work on Sundays. One should work on weekdays, but not so strenuously as to be tempted to work on Sundays."

"Capital is dead labor that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor."

"As long as productive labor is not freed, one cannot speak of freedom."

"The property of the bourgeois is his capital and his labor-power."

"The worker's existence is reduced to the condition of existence of every other commodity."

"The more the worker expends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates."

"The more of his life the worker puts into the object, the less he has left in himself."

"The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces."

"The simplification of industrial processes requires the simplification of the human being."

"The world is divided into two: those who work and those who profit from work."

"The more the worker produces, the less he can consume."

"All human activity is distinguished from mechanical activity by consciousness."

"Work undertaken with purpose and integrity becomes a form of spiritual practice."

"Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate and violent a passion, that it can never be softened by the consciousness of injustice."

"The sweetest fruit is that which we have earned through our own labor."