Quotes About Labor

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

Were it not for the cabarets, would not the Government be overturned every Tuesday? Happily, by Tuesday, this people is glutted, sleeps off its pleasure, is penniless, and returns to its labor, to dry bread, stimulated by a need of material procreation, which has become a habit to it.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years – for a lifetime!

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

It was almost like being on an urban plantation, a kind of modern-day sharecropping. You worked hard, brought in your crop, and you were always in debt to the landholder.

a scarce labour force is always a valuable one.

She looked at the faces of the off-shifting workers, gray and featureless as paper handkerchiefs.

Saying of the Prophet Food Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.

Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Tad and a couple of his friends had been asked by Tom to move 150 to 200 large metal corral poles from the front yard to a location beyond the canal. The poles were of varying length and were seven to eight inches in diameter and weighed between 25 and 150 pounds each. It took the three teenagers about four hours of hard work to complete the job. The boys finished about noon.

Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare.

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!

James Connolly, 1916: 'The worker is the slave of capitalist society: the female worker is the slave of that slave.

A pesar de las diferencias reales que existen entre ellos, los trabajadores de una fábrica se parecen a las secretarias de una oficina, a los campesinos de una finca, a los esclavos de una plantación —incluso a las mujeres en un matrimonio— en que todos ellos viven y trabajan en condiciones de poder desigual.

When the heart is heavy, the hands crave work

expectations. So the labor force coming from the east is

Historically, the 'deadline' was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for shooting. In keeping with shifts in the exercise of control, what one was delineated spatially over life is now enforced temporarily over labor.