Quotes About Labor

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lovely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Parental nurturing was replaced with forced assimilation, hard physical labor, harsh discipline, and emotional, physical, and often sexual abuse.

You can understand why it took nine hundred years to build—and that was with German workers. In Britain they would still be digging the foundations.

if you're a capitalist, you don't buy people—you buy their ability to work.

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

The word freedom lost much of its strength when one's back was weighted down with fieldwork.

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, called JOLTS, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The employment picture was so favorable that the United States would run out of workers soon.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

It's not their fault. It's because they've been taught that 'Work is holy, good and beautiful. It counts above everything else, and the workers alone will inherit the earth.' Only things have been arranged so that they have to spend all their time working and there's no time left for the rest of it to come true.

Por qué miran con tanto desdén? —preguntó Chloé—. Al fin y al cabo, trabajar no es para tanto. —Se les ha inculcado la idea de que trabajar es algo bueno —dijo Colin—. En general, se considera así. Pero, de hecho, no hay nadie que lo piense. Se hace por costumbre y para no pensar en ello precisamente.

It was on the back of cotton, and thus on the backs of slaves, that the U.S. economy ascended in the world (p.119).

When we think of capitalism, we think of wage workers, yet this prior phase of capitalism was based not on free labor but on slavery.

by 1905, cotton experts estimated, a full 15 million people, or about 1 percent of the world's population, were engaged in the growing of cotton.

The labor market as idealized in modern-day economics textbooks as often as not came about as a result of strikes, unions, and riots.

By 1830, one in six workers in Britain labored in cottons.

Cotton manufacturers understood that their prosperity was entirely dependent on the labor of slaves and they "dreaded the severity of the revulsion which must sooner, or later arrive.

Even the apostles were tentmakers...

But, to salve my conscience, I must feel the pain of work

It [tradition] cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.