"The worker puts his life into the..." - Quote by Karl Marx

“Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.”

“There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.”

“I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.”

“The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.”

“I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.”

“The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.”

“The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.”

“When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.”

“Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.”