Framework Quote by T. S. Eliot

“Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.”

— Ivan Illich

“True choice requires that a person have the ability to choose an option and not be prevented from choosing it by any external force,…

— Sheena Iyengar

“On this subject it is striking to note how many individuals pursue, outside of their own professions and with a kind of rebellious delight,…

— Robert Grudin

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

— Edmund Burke

We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape…

— Wendell Berry

Work without interest is imprisonment. Even if you aren't super-passionate about your work, you've got to at least be interested in it. When you…

— Melchor Lim

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

— Elmore Leonard

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity,…

— Wendell Berry

“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

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers