Quotes About Labor

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

Work is a form of nervousness.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

Work ... is redemption.

If you really want to end income inequality, I've got the way to fix it. People who don't work shouldn't get any income.

If you don't work, you shouldn't have an income. If you don't work, you shouldn't get paid.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

I'd rather work than not.

Work is the only device I know of.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

All I do is work, that's all my life is work.