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The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him, but to the object.
Karl Marx1818–1883
- Anti-God
Capital is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx1818–1883Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 10, Section 1, p. 257.
- Economics
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Economics
The working men have no country.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Patriotism
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Politics
There is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIn context
- Money
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
Arthur Miller1915–2005The Price (1967)
A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962On Being Blonde (2007), p. 53
- Love
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
L. M. Montgomery1874–1942Anne of Green Gables (1908), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Motivation & Goals
It is better for any of you to carry a load of firewood on his own back than to beg from someone else.
MMuhammad571–632Riyadh-Us-Saleheen, Chapter 59, hadith 540
If a schedule is long, it’s wrong. If it’s tight, it’s right.
Elon Muskborn 1971“Starship Update” talk at the SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas on September 28, 2019, During Q&A at the “Starship Update” presentation
- Time
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
Isaac Newton1643–1727
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Human, All Too Human (1878), Aphorism 283, tr. Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann
- Freedom
The days you work are the best days.
GOGeorgia O'Keeffe
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
MOMary Oliver1935–2019Blue Pastures (1995)
- Art