Quotes About Labor

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.

Let's say loudly and clearly, Right to Work is wrong for workers and wrong for America.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

We work and that is godlike.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.

I'm not a big movie-goer. I just feel like I'm watching work.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

Why does a writer labor over nuance and context if it won't be respected, if a critic insists on ignoring the writing at hand in favor of a more convenient analysis of his or her own particular pet peeves and straw men?

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.