I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCMan must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC