Politics Quote by Tom Clancy

“As the old saying went in the Soviet Union, “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.”

— Stefan Molyneux

We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us.

— Anonymous

“The Socialist social contract was tartly summed up in the popular joke: ‘you pretend to work, we pretend to pay you’. Many workers, especially…

— Tony Judt

“If there’s one thing that we capitalists have in common with the communists of old, it’s a pathological obsession with gainful employment. Just as…

— Rutger Bregman

“Let me give you some advice: never work for the government. Because when you work for the government, you work for the people. And…

— John Green

“* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the…

— George Orwell

“I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.”

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what…

— Erich Fromm

Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene pensions. They…

— Ann Coulter

One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

— Chrystia Freeland

“Government workers are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”

— Steven Magee

“[I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities,” one Soviet official explained in 1973.”

— John Lewis Gaddis