Quotes on Laborers

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.