Ale Quote by Thomas Malthus

“There are some so restless that when they are free from labour they labour all the more, because the leisure they they have for…

— Anonymous

“We all know that drugs, alcohol and tobacco are Bad, but work, we are brought up to believe, is Good. As a result the…

— Stephen Fry

The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made…

— Georges Simenon

“once people grew used to free money, to laboring only when the mood struck them, they began to think there was something low about…

— Philipp Meyer

“Being poor produces a way of responding to life circumstances that, while warm and giving, is continually vigilant to threat and chronically stressed in…

— Dacher Keltner

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants…

— Bernard de Mandeville

“there is nothing arrogant about mentioning ordinary people’s material concerns: the poor have the right to do it, and to talk about a readiness…

— Slavoj Žižek

“We are lost; waiting tables at Denny's or forgetting ourselves stripping on poles, or working at a coffee shop misplaced in history or slowly…

— Matthew Zorich

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

— Brenda Ueland

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do…

— Lydia M. Child

“Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems…

— Hannah Arendt