Quotes about division-of-labor
division-of-labor perfection mind
The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal. Napoleon Bonaparte
division-of-labor horizon phases
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
division-of-labor ghouls vampire
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. Karl Marx
division-of-labor sloth justification
Division of labor is a justification for sloth. Leo Tolstoy
division-of-labor common process
When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts. Carroll Quigley
division-of-labor errors derivatives
The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority. Theodor Adorno
division-of-labor dignity conditions
The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition. Herbert Marcuse
division-of-labor effort devil
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. Samuel Butler
division-of-labor peaceful society
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal. Ludwig von Mises