Quotes About Labor

Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.

Workers' rights must be respected.

We don't own any restaurants, we did once and that's not something we want to do, because then it's work.

Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with?

I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

Work is what saves you.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

For me, filming is always like delivery pains.

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for three years.

I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.

General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.

I like part-time jobs in restaurants.

Capitalism in and of itself is based on the monetising of human labour, and the first evidence of that is slavery. And that has never changed. We are all participating in that.

The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

The civilized man needs a roof, a room, a hearth, and a bed. It is true that the bed, the room, and the house is a home of idleness for the non-producer. But for the worker, a room, properly heated and lighted, is as much an instrument of production as the tool or the machine. It is the place where the nerves and sinews gather strength for the work of the morrow. The rest of the workman is the daily repairing of the machine.

Overwork is repulsive to human nature--not work.

Wage-work is serf-work; it cannot, it must not, produce all that it could produce. And it is high time to disbelieve the legend which represents wagedom as the best incentive to productive work. If industry nowadays brings in a hundred times more than it did in the days of our grandfathers, it is due to the sudden awakening of physical and chemical sciences towards the end of last century; not to the capitalist organization of wagedom, but in spite of that organization

His local campaigns around Macedonia also augmented that absolutely essential economic resource: slaves-slaves to work the mines, slaves to work the fields, slaves to keep the whole economy humming.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

Outside interests, from labor unions to large corporations, are influencing and distorting our government in the search for favorable policies.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

??tia mai s?raci au ?i chestii... idealuri... valori. Respect? fel de fel de lucruri. Cu cît e?ti mai bogat ?i mai sus, cu atît respec?i mai pu?ine chestii. ??tia au ?i un cult al muncii, care, între noi fie zis, e cumplit?, e un blestem, dar d? ?i unele satisfac?ii... Totul se pl?te?te ?i orice plat? î?i cî?tig? ceva. Eu am cî?tigat pl?ceri; dar sunt mereu tot alea. Te plictise?ti.