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"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."
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"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."
"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital."
"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue."
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"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend."
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."
"Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations."
"The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world."
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