Career Quote by Samuel Jonhson

“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

“When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder…

— Karl Marx

“In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation,…

— Thomas Hobbes

“They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Business of the World is Trade and Death, and you must engage with that unpleasantness, as the price of your not-at-all-assur'd Moment of…

— Thomas Pynchon

“The Active Life If an expert does not have some problem to vex him, he is unhappy! If a philosopher's teaching is never attacked,…

— Thomas Merton

“The most important economy, the only reasonable one, is to make life pleasant for all, because the man who is satisfied with his life…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“work, whatever it must be, is the service of God and of the community and therefore the expression of man's dignity. - Emil Brunner,…

— Larry Niven

“It is in the ardent revolutionist to whom the joys of art, of science, even of family life, seem bitter, so long as they…

— Peter Kropotkin

“may occasionally pay lip-service to their value, but it ultimately has no real use for artists, dancers, poets, self-sufficient farmers, tree lovers, devoted followers…

— John Taylor Gatto

“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.”

— John Leslie