4 Bertrand Russell Quotes on Work

Bertrand Russell quotes on work

110. Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.

124. A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

128. First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

164. Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.