Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.
In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.