Working Hours Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

André Gorz
“Socialism' should not be taken to mean merely subordinating the economy to the needs and values of society. It also involves the creation, as an effect of ever shorter and increasingly flexible working hours, of a growing sphere of sharing within the community, of voluntary and self-organized co-operation, of increasingly extensive self-determined activities.”
André Gorz, Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology

“Every ever you are in the world, you have to work to earn a living.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“A job often makes it impossible for an employee to enjoy something it makes possible for them to do or have.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“With pocket money we prepare schoolchildren for the part of their lives during which some people to whom they are not related will use money to make them do, every weekday for about eight hours, things they do not really want to do.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Frank  Sonnenberg
“Measure progress — not the time that you’re working.”
Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Some, like [Former Australian Greens Leader] Bob Brown, favour a greater overhaul of the political system, restricting sitting days to normal business hours, and compressing sitting weeks iinto longer blocks of time, allowing parliamentarians and their staff longer uninterrupted periods back in the electorate and at home with family. 'I think it would be better to have four or five full days a week and hav ethe evenings off - all of them,' Brown says. 'If peopel want to, they can have their party-room meetings and inevitable discussions after, but earlier, and have more sleep time at night.'
Fleur Anderson, On Sleep