Character Quote by Bertrand Russell

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

— Bertrand Russell

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time…

— Anonymous

Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community,…

— Hillary Clinton

It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in…

— Kenneth Cloke

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“We tend to assign a lesser social value to those whose doing cannot be enslaved into a given output. We should look to them…

— Cole Arthur Riley

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one…

— Clement Greenberg

We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“In the economies of late capitalism leisure displaces labor, consumption displaces production, and commodities become the instruments of leisure, identity, and social relations.”

— John Fiske

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

— Oscar Wilde

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with…

— Judith Martin