Conditions Quote by John Locke

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

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall…

— Samuel Smiles

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

— Orville Dewey

“We have already observed that by excluding the immense majority of the human species from its midst, by keeping this majority outside the reciprocal…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all…

— Bertrand Russell

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

— Thomas Fuller

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is…

— Immanuel Kant

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

— Barbara Amiel

“Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the…

— Scotty Smith

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are…

— William Petty

“The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty…

— Charles William Eliot