“The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.” PainJoyWorkPleasureProduceProtectSpoiled Book:The New Being Source: The New Being
“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.” TurnsWorkRichProduceLaborMachinesWorkersSectionsPalacesDeprivationBarbaricDeformity Author:Karl Marx
“The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.” WantGrowsWorkProduceFertile Book:Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry
“I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.” PeopleShouldHardWorkProduceHard WorkTerribleSakeFavorsTerrible ThingsBe Encouraged Book:Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay Source: Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay