Quotes About Labor

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

Starships are all work and no fun.

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

For the lazy, all work is difficult.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

To the worker, God himself lends aid.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.