A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we’ve got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Man, all lives matter.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Racism is real in this country.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.