Work liberates.

Arbeit macht frei.

Anonymous

Words inscribed on the gates of Dachau concentration camp, 1933, and subsequently on those of Auschwitz.

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Work

Author

Anonymous

Medium

Inscription

Language

German

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

From

Germany Europe

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Citation

Inscription. Appears over the entrance of various Nazi Germany concentration camps. c. 1940.

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Another quote from the 1940s

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

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Topic
The little things Happiness

Author

Nikos Kazantzakis
Source
Zorba the Greek
Medium
Novel
Language
Greek
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 7.

Another quote about Work

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

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Topic
Nature of art Making money Work Art and business Business

Author

Andy Warhol
Source
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
English
Time
1975 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 6.

Another quote from 1940

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

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Topic
World War II No surrender
Speaker
Winston Churchill
Source
We Shall Fight on the Beaches
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "We Shall Fight on the Beaches." House of Commons meeting. 4 June 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Dunkirk: Wars Are Not Won by Evacuations." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

Another quote originally in German

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Topic
Charting one's own path

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Advice
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1885, pt. 4.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 4.