Quotes About Labor

No man e'er was glorious, who was not laborious.

A hand that's dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor.

...but I assure you that there are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor.

He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labor and exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time; and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labor and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

We say we have to work so hard in in order to get so little in life. That little may be more than we need. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

The Ward Line paid the lowest possible wages and drove the crew as hard as it could. Ordinary seamen earned $35 a month; firemen, $52; quartermasters, $55; engine-room oilers, $60.

He had been turned out of Eden. The angel with the flaming sword had bidden him no more think to enter. He must go forth and labor, but God was not dead.

In a way he was lucky. He was a member of a generation that thought it was a good, even joyous, political idea to put its brains, energy, labor at the service of the people.

Minimum wage, minimum effort

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.

For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?

Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.

Honor lies in honest toil.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Le travail, c'est le meilleur des médicaments.

Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much less than you deserve. But even those prospects are better than the ones you used to have. This is the life of los jornaleros – the day laborers.

The first generation of immigrants commit themselves to a lifetime of labor, not assimilation—that's the job of the children.

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Why should people with particular skills – always accepting they are skills – live a vastly better economic life than others who have different skills?

Production masters material; service submits to it.

Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton.

It is the kind of sobbing you only hear from a woman, because it comes from pain that men do not have to bear; it's the pain of labor; it's the pain of rejection and betrayal; it is a form of rage so great there is no receptacle big enough in which to confine it. And worst of all, it cannot be described or understood by those who have not experienced it themselves.