Quote by Nina Power

“The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.”

— Pierre-Jospeh Proudhon

“A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.”

— Ben Sasse

“The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.”

— E.P. Thompson

“Live with your age, but be not its creation; labour for your contemporaries, but do for them what they need, and not what they…

— Efraim Podoksik

“The way I see it, no one in this country should work full-time and still live in poverty—period.”

— Elizabeth Warren

“The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked…

— Edith Wharton

“Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.”

— Anonymous

“Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up…

— Lionel Shriver

“There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.”

— junot diaz