Where did this Quote come from?

[Reznov]

It went something like this,

If you aren't producing enough to match your needs, you are of no use to us.

Or something similar to that, anyone know who's that from?

[Reznov]

Anyone?

I think it might have come from Lenin...

And the quote is not exactly the way it was said, so you cant just copy and paste it into google... it sounded something familiar to what I wrote though.

[ZeroNowhere]

Perhaps you're referring to 'He who shall not work, neither shall he eat'? In that case, it was derived from the Bible: "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." It was used by proletarian movements:


Once settled down into absolute laziness and demoralized by enforced enjoyment, the capitalist class in spite of the injury involved in its new kind of life, adapted itself to it. Soon it began to look upon any change with horror. The sight of the miserable conditions of life resignedly accepted by the working class and the sight of the organic degradation engendered by the depraved passion for work increased its aversion for all compulsory labor and all restrictions of its pleasures. It is precisely at that time that, without taking into account the demoralization which the capitalist class had imposed upon itself as a social duty, the proletarians took it into their heads to inflict work on the capitalists Artless as they were, they took seriously the theories of work proclaimed by the economists and moralists, and girded up their loins to inflict the practice of these theories upon the capitalists. The proletariat hoisted the banner, “He who will not work Neither shall he Eat”. Lyons in 1831 rose up for bullets or work. The federated laborers of March 1871 called their uprising “The Revolution of Work”
- Paul Lafargue, 1883.

So it certainly didn't originate from Lenin. However, he did use it.

[Reznov]

No, thats not it.

I heard it on T.V. a while back.

I don't think im going to get this quote :(