Productive Work quotes

Productive Work

18 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

"Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion."

Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher

"Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others."

Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist

"If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite."

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