Existence Quote by Derrick Jensen

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body…

— Socrates

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

— Demosthenes

Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal…

— Orville Dewey

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

— Che Guevara

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

— Leonardo da Vinci

They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive…

— Ayn Rand

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves…

— William Hazlitt

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

— Thomas Jefferson

When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a…

— Max Stirner

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now…

— George Mac Donald

Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.

— Orville Dewey