Quotes About Labor

I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.

I was a host and a busboy and a barback.

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Think of how much time is spent looking and applying for jobs. Some of those who have read my book on the precariat have told me they have applied for thousands of jobs. This is scarcely leisure; it is work.

Work is at the heart of human dignity.

That's the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.

The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.

His nametag said Jose. I tried to see if he was missing any fingers. Mexicans don't get cushy box jobs unless they're owed. That's the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.

those who do the world's work most dearly pay the price of the world's pain.

The Federalists resisted every attempt by Northern artisans to organize, lest their success, as one Federalist writer put it, "excite similar attempts among all other descriptions of persons who live by manual labor."79

When you work with water, you have to know and respect it. When you labor to subdue it, you have to understand that one day it may rise up and turn all your labors to nothing. For what is water, which seeks to make all things level, which has no taste or colour of its own, but a liquid form of Nothing?

Capitalists, he argued, will not agree to any social progress completely eliminating unemployment because such a program would reduce the supply of cheap labor. You will never persuade a capitalist to cause himself losses for the sake of satisfying people's needs.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

Social Security was designed to give a few years of modest benefits to people whose bodies were worn out through coal mining, factory work and other physically demanding labor.

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.

I'm worried about economic growth in the United States. And the creation of jobs, output, and employment. And if you tax people who work, you're going to get less people working. And what the carbon tax would do is remove the tax from people who work and put it on a product in the ground.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

Authorities that erect major obstacles to migration - or place severe restrictions on migrants' work opportunities - inflict needless economic self-harm, as they impose barriers to having their labor needs met in an orderly, legal fashion. Worse still, they unintentionally encourage illegal migration.

I believe it is wrong for Canada to follow the path of countries who exploit large numbers of guest workers, who have no realistic prospect of citizenship. It is bad for our economy in that it depresses wages for all Canadians, but it's even worse for our country.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.