Quotes About Labor

Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

Work, as a distinct category of life, likewise did not exist until agriculture.

a mere increase of wages will never redeem the evils of the industrial system

To the Greeks, work was a curse and nothing else. Their name for it—ponos—has the same root as the Latin poena, sorrow

In Genesis, the Bible's first book, woman is born from the body of man. The Fall from Eden represents the demise of hunter-gatherer life, the expulsion into agriculture and hard labor. It is blamed on Eve, of course, who bears the stigma of the Fall. 1' Quite an irony, in that domestication is the fear and refusal of nature and woman, while the Garden myth blames the chief victim of its scenario, in reality.

Men find it easier to work than to deal with anything else.

They don't want to end up like Harlan, with a damn war going on between the miners and their bosses.

Death, in many guises, is one of the by-products of neoliberalism: when people have nothing further that can be taken from them, whether resources or labor or power, they are quite simply disposable.

In his book Darwin's Cathedral, Wilson catalogues the ways that religions have helped groups cohere, divide labor, work together, and prosper.

My wife, God bless her, was in labor for thirty-two hours. And I was faithful to her the entire time.

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

Perry suspected that his great-grandfather had probably been a hard man: back then, union organizers had had their skulls broken, and had broken skulls in turn. These days they were the whipping boys for everything that was wrong with the economy, as though the days of child labor and dismissal without cause had never happened.

The revolution in Manila was being led by young intellectuals, sons of merchants and professionals who had been educated in Europe and who had planned their revolt using the theories of the French Revolution. Isio had long, scraggly hair, bare feet, and eyes that betrayed the many years of sadness and labor his people had endured. With a look of pity and incredulity, Salas finally asked, "How is it possible that you survived?

Who would have known that much of the wealth in their nation's booming economy was created on the other side of the world by the most brutal mistreatment of other human beings, many of them women and children?

Did somebody say McUnion? [...] Not if they want to keep their McJob.

And workers who needed to go to the bathroom weren't allowed to take a break. They were forced to pee right on the slaughterhouse floor, near meat that people would soon be eating.