In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging ….

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capit….

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concen….

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason ….

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish..

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods..

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption..