Assured Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his…

— Henry David Thoreau

Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations tomen; his…

— Henry David Thoreau

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade…

— Benjamin Franklin

“All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free time. They…

— Ivan Illich

“Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.”

— Ivan Illich

“We seldom consider how much of our lives we must render in return for some object we barely want, seldom need, buy only because…

— Ferenc Mate

“Physical labour is a daily death”

— Simone Weil

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither…

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

— Karl Marx

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those…

— William James

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its…

— William Booth