Quotes About Labor

The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being that we could have a finer division of labor and be more specialized.

Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed.

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .

Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.