Quotes About Labor

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

The sound of thunder, the smell of rain. The earth giving birth to another season. Nature's labor pains...beautiful.

Every worker should know that by working, he is releasing the nature of God in him. He is becoming creative just like God is creative.

When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard.

All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence , and attendants with infinite patience.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

All wealth is the product of thoughts, labor, and love.