Bane Quote by Mark Twain

“Overwork is repulsive to human nature—not work. Overwork for supplying the few with luxury—not work for the well-being of all. Work is a physiological…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's…

— Lance Morrow

What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to…

— Art Spiegelman

We're so overregulated as a country that we just crushed our productivity.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

We could not allow a degradation of our work ethic to start to cause us to slide backward on the world stage. It is…

— Mark Robinson

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

— Roxane Gay

Where to focus only on productivity | The quality is futile to expect

— Mak_786

“Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of…

— Anonymous

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get…

— Cornel West

You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that's the reason I gave up my day job to come do…

— Mike Pompeo

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But…

— David Graeber

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

— Adam Hochschild