Quotes About Labor

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.

Unpaid work never commands respect.

If food were free, why work?

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

Surely love is both work and wages.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

We work to earn our leisure.

. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.