Quotes About Labor

Mother's got romantic notions about toiling the land - or mostly, about her children toiling the land. And with fifteen acres, there's always something that needs toiling with.

Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism.

A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their lives.

the market system handed down to human beings a sentence of "life at hard labor."18

Where I work at the auto plant, the workers are just dropping like flies. When there's a lot of work because of a new model coming out, they make people work 10 and 12 hours every day, 6 days a week. Lots of people, even the younger ones, are developing high blood pressure, having accidents on the job, or car accidents on the way to and from work, or other serious health problems. But they have to do it. If you don't like it, you can just quit.44

this fetishism of the world of commodities arises from the peculiar social character of the labor which produces them.

It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.

yo creo que las mujeres tejen cuando han encontrado en esa labor el gran pretexto para no hacer nada.

No sé por qué tejía tanto, yo creo que las mujeres tejen cuando han encontrado en esa labor el gran pretexto para no hacer nada.

boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!

She replied that the manual labour exercised her body while allowing her mind and spirit to rest, adding that she believed there was value in the discipline of ordinariness, provided that it was only a discipline and not an unvarying state of being.

Farming can't be hard, or farmers couldn't do it.

Real Christians accept suffering as a normal part of following Christ, just as mothers accept labor as a normal part of delivering a baby. "No pain, no gain" applies to world evangelism as well as exercise programs! Until we can accept suffering, sacrifice and self-denial as routine and normal, we will never see the Great Commission fulfilled in our generation.

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

These demographics presented real threats to white planters, including a potential cross-racial labor movement. Plantation work was close and intimate, and it fostered a troubling solidarity between the growing Black population and white indentured servants. White planters could not afford for such a dangerous bond to form--which is why in 1705 Virginia's legislature did as much to codify white privilege as it did to establish Black subjugation.

I'm an unwavering supporter of labor unions and understand that they are currently in a death struggle with corporate overlords grinding workers' rights under their tasseled Gucci loafers.

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

My first job at the bakery was jamming doughnuts.

Farm jobs are not a bargaining chip.

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

There's some jobs that are easier than others, that's for sure.