Labor Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?”

— James Clavell

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

— Cat Stevens

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

— Samuel Gompers

The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized…

— Jason Read

“A businessman who expects his output to be stolen, expropriated, or entirely taxed away will have little incentive to work, let alone any incentive…

— Daron Acemoğlu

In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

— Andrew Joseph Galambos

“In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable.”

— George Orwell

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

— David Ricardo

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

— Henry Ford

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