Boss Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“An economy built on slave labor is vulnerable in two ways. One, availability of forced labor discourages technical innovation. The very wealthy [Roman]empire experienced…

— Norman F. Cantor

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

— Edward Ball

“One of the main differences between a slave and an employee is that the employee sold themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

— Jim Hightower

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage…

— Mikhail Bakunin

It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in…

— Kenneth Cloke

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave…

— Bertrand Russell

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little…

— John Ridley

The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.

— Herbert Marcuse

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

— Martin Luther King, Jr