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“There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.”

World Years Littles Done Whole Natural Work Duty Months Machines Whole Life Inevitable Degrade Drudgery

Book:The Outline of History

Source: The Outline of History

“A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.”

Humans Kind Work Human Beings Machines Productions Human Life Meant To Be

Author:Dalai Lama

“Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.”

Turns Work Rich Produce Labor Machines Workers Sections Palaces Deprivation Barbaric Deformity

Author:Karl Marx

“And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.”

Men Needs America Work Pay Mines Revolution Training Doctors Machines Income Farming Mills Landlord Automation Grocers

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.”

Littles Done Humanity Individual Bits Work Pieces Pride Little Bit Machines Merit Defects Machinery

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.”

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.”

Ifs Men Believe Work Talent Labor Machines Invention Unemployment Inventing Back To Work Work Effort New Inventions New Talent

Author:John F. Kennedy

“A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.”

Should Work Novel Written Machines Interpretation Narrators

Author:Umberto Eco

“Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.”

Men World Work Secret Machines Function Structure Woods Invention Iron Inventor Hints Leather Inventing Anatomy Adapting Inventions And Inventors

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.”

Made Hard Work Plans Week Months Cost Machines Paid Down And Average

Author:Rose Schneiderman

“Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

Men Can Do Work Ordinary Machines Extraordinary Dozen Computing Ordinary Man

Author:E. B. White