Division Of Labor Quotes

• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

  Karl Marx

  Ghouls, Vampire, Politics

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• The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

  Adam Smith

  Skills, Dexterity, Improvement

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.2

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• We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Civilization, Culture, Development

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.120, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Whole, Involved

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  Karl Marx

  Horizon, Phases, Distribution Of Wealth

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

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• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

  Adam Smith

  Character, Differences, Example

  Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.7

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• Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sloth, Justification, Division

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.79, 1909.

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• The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Struggle, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.260, VM eBooks

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• The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Winning, Losing, Nations

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.1, NYU Press

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• God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

  Samuel Butler

  Effort, Devil, Specialization

  "The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition".

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• All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Different, Kind

  Immanuel Kant (2008). “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

  Robert Breault

  Work, Originals, Sinner

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• Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Self, Three, Way

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• Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

  Georg Simmel

  Cities, Firsts, Economic

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Dignity, Conditions, Division

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.133, Routledge

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• People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Rights, People

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.209, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  Karl Marx

  Competition, Together, Wages

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Modern

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded).

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Rewards, Way, Consumers

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Cooperation, Economy

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Love, Keys, Two

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• Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Doe, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?

  Emile Durkheim

  Character, Law, Degrees

  "De la division du travail social (The Division of Labor in Society)". Book by Emile Durkheim (p. 41 in 1947 translation of George Simpson), 1893.

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• Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better its chances for survival. When cells band together they increase their awareness exponentially. Division of labor among the cells in the community offers an additional survival advantage. The efficiency it enables more cells to live on less. Evolution is based on an instructive, cooperative interaction among organisms and their environment enables life forms to survive and evolve in a dynamic world.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Teamwork, Cells, Community

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• Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.

  Leon Trotsky

  Class, Leader, Soldier

  Leon Trotsky (2017). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.306, Penguin UK

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