Quotes About Labor

You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

In the hyper-exploitative sector of retail and hospitality, workers are made to feel worthless - undeserving of a proper wage and genuine security.

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

When I was 17, I had to peel 100 kg of tomatoes every day.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.

We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.

It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.

I plan to work with all my colleagues on education and labor issues and to ensure the security of our nation by providing agencies from FEMA's disaster recovery efforts to the Coast Guard protecting our nation with the tools they need to be successful.

I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

the most slavish thing was to "luxuriate," whereas the most royal thing was to "labor.

Sabes, David, é um prazer ser ceifeiro quando os campos ondulam carregados de trigo maduro. Mas se obrigassem alguém a ir ceifar umas pobres espigas ainda não amadurecidas, seria uma tarefa repugnante.

Je ne me vois pas en train de travailler quelque part, rien que pour travailler. Pour quoi faire ? Si c'est pour gagner de l'argent, n'importe quel travail est bon.

Paradoxical as it may seem, collective bargaining is not losing ground in the United States because unions are less attractive, but unions are less attractive because collective bargaining is losing ground.

The world of efficiency and anonymity dehumanises us. We have to ask who the invisible people are. Who makes our clothes? Who picks our vegetables? And how are they treated?

I cut all day and I squared all night And I thought I'd mined the mountain's might Then I saw all my work by the bright dawn light The mountain was the world and my labor a mite

going, but that was OK. Good, honest hard work: burying the dead. Took an hour to dig a hole

Political involvement is reduced to minimal, anodyne terms: "People everywhere want to say what they think; choose who will govern them; worship as they please; educate their children—male and female; own property; and enjoy the benefits of their labor.