Paul Lafargue quotes
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“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 LafargueSource : Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
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“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.”
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“O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.”
-- Paul LafargueSource : Paul Lafargue (2012). “The Right To Be Lazy”, p.36, The Floating Press
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“Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.”
-- Paul LafargueSource : Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.12, Library of Alexandria
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“Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.”
-- Paul LafargueSource : Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.8, Library of Alexandria
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“In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!”
-- Paul LafargueSource : Paul Lafargue (1984). “Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue”
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“Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs.”
-- Paul LafargueSource : Paul Lafargue (1984). “Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue”
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Source : George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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