"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."

Labor, Night, Rest

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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Labor, Employment, Fear, Exploitation, Power

"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Labor, Injustice, Business, Exploitation, Profit

"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Labor, Work, Society, Slavery, Freedom

"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Labor, Work, Cure, Effort, Humanity

"By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

Labor, Exploitation, Capitalism, Power

"To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

Labor, Exploitation, Economics, Inequality

"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Labor, Work, Stability, Routine, Control

"If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Labor, Cooperation, Insight, Perspective, Efficiency

"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Labor, Work, Values, Equality, Society

"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Labor, Zeal

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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."

"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

"By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week."

"If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems."

"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."

"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."

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"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."

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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

"The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening."

"We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate."

"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."

"I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity."

"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"