Quotes About Labor

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

There is an old Italian saying: "Il lavoro nobilita I'uomo, e lo rende simile alle bestie"; or, "Work gives man nobility, and turns him into an animal.

Work as we know it now is a very recent historical development. It didn't exist before the great agricultural revolutions that made intensive farming possible about twelve thousand years ago.

Kdo si postaví d?m, je jeho otrokem. Kdo obdÄ›lává p?du, je jejím otrokem.

This whole idea of using your hands, your back, and trading your hours for dollars is WRONG!

Work hard AND smart.

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

He never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to him that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.

As far as he was concerned, the whole religion thing was a racket for overeducated men who didn't want to do real work.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

If an earthworm in the ground won't starve to death, then neither will we, the working class." He

Moon, you've accompanied me in my labors all these years, you're a lantern sent to me by the Old Man in the Sky. I've tilled the soil by your light, I've sown seeds by your light, and I've brought in harvests by your light… You say nothing, you are never angry or resentful, and I'm forever in your debt.' The moon trembled slightly and winked at Lan Lian.

the world market for cheap labor exceeds even the market for cheap sex.

so long as all countries have not one labor market but in practice two—one legal or tolerated, another underground and unregulated—certain kinds of labor such as garment manufacturing, domestic work, and sex will keep producing huge profits for human smugglers and traffickers.

Sisyphus. Have you people nothing better

Saint Benedict of Nursia in Italy (c. 480-c. 543) brought common sense to monastic practice. His famous Rule encouraged asceticism and otherworldliness, without leading to excess. It prescribed, in reasonable proportions, prayer, praise, study, and labor in the fields. The Rule is still the guide for many monasteries.

Three conditions are necessary for a slave society: private, concentrated landownership, sufficient development of commodity production and markets, and unavailability of an internal labor supply.

Motto of the Benedictines

the opportunity for overthrowing capitalism has passed – Labor governments are the hope of the world." From that time his commitment to the ALP was unquestioned.

But perhaps his outstanding contribution to Australian politics was that, after a lifetime of switching sides, he put in place the basic two-party structure we have today: Labor versus anti-Labor. The anti-Labor parties have had many names, but always the same policy: to keep Labor out of office.

Did you ever bury thirty-five men in a place in back of your house, thirty-five tunnel workers the doctors didn't attend, died in the tunnel camps, under rocks, everywhere, world without end.

Murray Bookchin spent a lifetime opposing the rapacious ethos of grow-or-die capitalism. The nine essays in this book represent the culmination of that labor: the theoretical underpinning for an egalitarian and directly democratic ecological society, with a practical approach for how to build it.