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…

- Paul Lafargue

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

- Paul Lafargue

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

- Paul Lafargue

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

- Paul Lafargue

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

- Paul Lafargue

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

- Paul Lafargue

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

- Paul Lafargue