He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father, also known as He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (新難兄難弟), is a 1993 Hong Kong comedy-drama film directed by Peter Chan and Lee Chi-ngai and starring Tony Leung Ka-fai, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Carina Lau, Anita Yuen and Lawrence Cheng. The title is a pun of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", a hit single for The Hollies in 1969 and for Neil Diamond in 1970. Yuen scorns his father, who he thinks is too generous and forgiving. Through a flashback/time travel gimmick, Yuen meets his parents during their
He who does not work, neither shall he eat thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers. According to Vladimir Lenin, "He who does not work shall not eat" is a necessary principle under socialism, the preliminary phase of the evolution towards communist society. The phrase appears in his 1917 work, "The State and Revolution". Through this slogan Lenin explains that in socialist states only productive individuals could be allowed access to the articles of consumption. In accordance with Lenin’s understanding of the socialist state, article twelve of the 1936 Soviet Constitution states: In Lenin’s writing, this was