Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
