Quotes About Labor

Post–Industrial Revolution, especially post–information and tech revolutions, we learn to spend most of our time selling one small slice of our talents to pay for everything else we need.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

A low wage business is always insecure.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws.

Loving is a laborious and complex business.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

Less than half of children born under these conditions survived to their fifth birthday. Some authorities were concerned, not because of the appallingly high infant mortality rate but because these children died "before they can be engaged in factory labor, or in any other labor whatsoever.

O brilho do diamante são as lágrimas dos trabalhadores da Companhia. A dureza do diamante é uma ilusão: não é mais que gotas de suor esmagadas pelas toneladas de terra que o cobrem.