
"Mixed Essays, Equality" (1879)
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section IX, p. 408
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
"Mixed Essays, Equality" (1879)
“The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book II, Chapter III, p. 364 (see Proverbs 14-23 KJV).
Context: Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his masters profits. The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing.
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 40.
(1847)
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Five, The American Matrix for Transformation
Source: Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856), p. 40-41: Cited in Chandler (1977, p. 103)
As quoted in Filipinos in History, Vol. 2 (1989) by National Historical Institute of the Philippines.
ULOL
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 6, Welfare, p. 239
Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938), Ch. 5 "The Methods of Anarcho-Syndicalism"
Context: True intellectual culture and the demand for higher interests in life does not become possible until man has achieved a certain material standard of living, which makes him capable of these. Without this preliminary any higher intellectual aspirations are quite out of the question. Men who are constantly threatened by direst misery can hardly have much understanding of the higher cultural values. Only after the workers, by decades of struggle, had conquered for themselves a better standard of living could there be any talk of intellectual and cultural development among them. But it is just these aspirations of the workers which the employers view with deepest distrust. For capitalists as a class, the well-known saying of the Spanish minister, Juan Bravo Murillo, still holds good today:"We need no men who can think among the workers; what we need is beasts of toil."