Quotes About Labor

también el proletariado, esa clase obrera moderna que sólo puede vivir encontrando trabajo y que sólo encuentra trabajo en la medida en que éste alimenta a incremento el capital. El obrero, obligado a venderse a trozos, es una mercancía como otra cualquiera, sujeta, por tanto, a todos los cambios y modalidades de la concurrencia, a todas las fluctuaciones del mercado.

The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women.

As the reader will have recognized in dismay, the analysis of the real, inner connections of the capitalist production process is a very intricate thing

According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. … what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured an looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital.

Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever expanding union of workers.

The average price of wage-labor, is the minimum wage ...

Butter was plastered on to the roll with no regard for the hard labor of the cow

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of Christ.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.