He who does not work, neither shall he eat

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"He who does not work, neither shall he eat" is an aphorism from the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle. It was later cited by John Smith in the early 1600s colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and broadly by the international socialist movement, from the United States to the communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin during the early 1900s Russian Revolution. The Chan master Baizhang is also well-known for telling his monks a similar aphorism: "A day without work is a day without food" (Chinese: 一日不做一日不食; pinyin: yīrì bù zuò yīrì bù shí; lit. 'One day not work, one day not eat').

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