Slave Labour Quotes

#1. Always work harder than other people are willing to work. Sweat more, endure more pain, and then reap the rewards of success and achievement.

Robert Cheeke

#2. You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

Robert Breault

#3. I have been asked to lend people money - I now only ever give whatever amount is comfortable without thinking it will come back, otherwise when you see that person wearing a new coat or going on holiday you think but yes, where is my money?

Anne Robinson

#4. People talk of "class selfishness". Well, I know something of history, and I never heard of any tyrant, aristocrat, capitalist, slave-holder, buccaneer, middle-class shopkeeper - so absolutely and exclusively governed by selfishness as Trades Union "labour".

George Saintsbury

#5. He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

Charles Dickens

#6. The best thing about writing is the reader

Girish Kohli

#7. There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. Our gifts, they are many:
We hop, fly, and crawl.
But kindness," he said,
Is the finest of all!

David Kirk

#10. The essential difference between the various economic forms of society, between, for instance, a society based on slave-labour, and one based on wage-labour, lies only in the mode in which this surplus-labour is in each case extracted from the actual producer, the labourer. [6]

Karl Marx

#11. I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

Neil Oliver

#12. Its deadpan and her sarcasm sailed straight on past each other, strangers passing on a dark road in the night.

Nicole Kornher-Stace

#13. The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#14. To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. The essential difference between a society based on slave-labour and one based on wage-labour lies, Marx says, only in the manner in which this surplus-labour is extracted from the real producer, the worker.

Anonymous