Quotes About Labor

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

Work is a four-letter word.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Money was their God; work their religion.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Work is the province of cattle.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

A day without work is a day without food.

Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.