Character Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.”

— Oscar Wilde

We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they…

— Jarvis Cocker

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help little men by tearing…

— Anonymous

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

— Immanuel Kant

Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though…

— Thomas Malthus

“But dignity is also corroded by poverty no matter how poetically we invest the humble with simple graces and charm. No worker can maintain…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.”

— Gurcharan Das

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by…

— William J. H. Boetcker

“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found…

— Industrial Workers of the World

“Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana