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Work Quotes by Karl Marx
- Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time…
- Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work…
- The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does…
- If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because…
- Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.
- In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general…
- What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist.…
- The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.
- The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
- Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but…
- The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.
- If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond…
- To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
- The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
- Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those…
- In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
- History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle