Wage Slaves Quotes

• 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.

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  Paulo Coelho

  Years   Pyramids   Fire  

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• 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.

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  Groucho Marx

  Wisdom   Two   Forever  

  1245

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

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  Stephen Vizinczey

  Two   People   Wages  

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

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• 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.

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  Katherine Losse

  Men   Play   Ideas  

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

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• But what makes wage slaves? Wages!

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  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration   Wages   Slave  

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

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• 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.

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  August Spies

  Work   Thinking   Flames  

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

  1582

• 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.

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  Vladimir Lenin

  Land   Bourgeoisie   Slave  

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

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