"My humanity does not consist in sympathizing with men but in enduring my sympathy for them. My humanity is a perpetual self-overcoming." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. ‘Ecce Homo’ (1888)
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” -Hannah Arendt. ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’ (1951)
“[. . .] as the use of machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also increases” -Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels. ‘The Communist Manifesto’ (1848)