Wage Slaves Quotes:

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

- Stephen Vizinczey

source: Stephen Vizinczey (1990). “An Innocent Millionaire”, p.123, University of Chicago Press

topic: Two, People, Wages, Wage Slaves, Crosses To Bear

But what makes wage slaves? Wages!

- Groucho Marx

source: "Fictional character: Hammer". "The Cocoanuts", www.imdb.com. 1929.

topic: Inspiration, Wages, Slave, Wage Slaves

Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers and wives, sending written messages? Of course we were. But although we've succeeded in replacing slaves with wage slaves, all the advances we've made have been in the field of science. Human beings are still asking the same questions as their ancestors. In short, they haven't evolved at all.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Years, Pyramids, Fire, Wage Slaves

Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you to be free. Strike off your chains! Strike up the band! Strike three you're out! Remember, there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Be free, now and forever. One and individual. One for all and all for me, and tea for two and six for a quarter.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Wisdom, Two, Forever, Wage Slaves, Saturday Evening

Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

- Vladimir Lenin

source: "Collected Works, Vol. 41". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1960.

topic: Land, Bourgeoisie, Slave, Wage Slaves, Foreign Lands

In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental capitalism at work: While they abhorred the idea of being a wage slave, the young men of Silicon Valley were not trying to tear down the capitalist system. They were trying to become its new masters.

- Katherine Losse

source: Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Play, Ideas, Wage Slaves

But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.

- August Spies

source: Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

topic: Thinking, Fire, Flames, Blazing, Labor Movement