“All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.” IfsDiesPoorRichFineResourcesEconomicsLabor Author:Noam Chomsky
“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.” MenMayDoeRunningDiesEvilCausesCommunityMoralRiskSourceDiseaseLosingLaborMadnessWineSpeciesPreservesPoisonDisorderIdlenessQuarrelsBrutesVigorDegradeAversion Author:Francois Fenelon
“The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.” DiesTruth IsLaborBeastBatsWormsOwl Author:Margaret Cavendish
“What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.” PeopleSoulAgeLawReligionDiesPassionIgnoranceKingsLaborLettersClimateSimplicityOld AgeAttributesSerenityTranquilityAdmirableBrazilAbsorbingRelativism Book:The Essays Source: The Essays