Alienated-labor Quote by Robert C. Tucker

“He demonstrated that there was no such thing as free will, since men's creative impulses were determined, as all else, by the economic structure…

— Ayn Rand

“It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while at the…

— Karl Marx

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

— Che Guevara

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body…

— Socrates

“...the delicate arrangements and systems that made life on the outside so easy; the massive industries balanced on knife-edge adjustments; the handful of men…

— William Mulvihill

“...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot…

— John Locke

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it…

— Friedrich Engels

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a…

— Max Stirner

“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his…

— Henry David Thoreau

“So he worked. He lost weight; he walked light on the earth. Lack of physical labor, lack of variety of occupation, lack of social…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created…

— Ayn Rand