Paul Lafargue quotes

“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

Source : 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.”
-- Paul Lafargue

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“O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.”
-- Paul Lafargue

Source : 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 Lafargue

Source : 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 Lafargue

Source : 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 Lafargue

Source : 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 Lafargue

Source : Paul Lafargue (1984). “Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue”

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“Brains first and then Hard Work.”

“Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.”

“Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“No one man is superior to the game.”

“Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.”

“People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.”

“The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.”

“The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.”

Source : George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.”