Quotes About Labor

Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual's capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals and values, to find out about the world, to pursue his ends in order to survive and prosper, his capacity and need to communicate and interact with other human beings and to participate in the division of labor.

It is not true that high wages make prosperity. Instead, prosperity makes high wages.

Su renta por trabajo es más cara y su ocio más barato, así que tenderá a trabajar menos.

Unemployment will progress beyond the "frictional" stage and become really severe and lasting only if wage rates are kept artificially high and are prevented from falling. If wage rates are kept above the free-market level that clears the demand for and supply of labor, laborers will remain permanently unemployed.

The evolution of ingenuity is stagnating from the technogenic devaluation of labor.

Always have something to do, idleness is the worst disease to be avoided.

Any kind of work that involves the muscles and takes less care of the mind is boring.

Socialism is the voice of the workers or employees against the mistreatment of their employers.

Socialism turns a slave into a king while capitalism insists on keeping more slaves under the feet of the rich. Therefore, it is foolish to pretend to be a capitalist when you don't owe any capital yourself.

The only dark side of a country is when you have more part-time jobs than full-time. Part-time work is an excellent drainer of energy.

The only social injustice in the world is that the harder the job, the less it pays off.

Divorce of the intellect from body-labour has made of us the shortest-lived, most resourceless and most exploited nation on earth.(This is about Indians - due to caste division).

So I don't see the theme of the story as nature versus science. I see it as a conflict between demanding and understanding, between the kinds of labor that our society values or doesn't value, "innovators" versus "maintainers." It's

Well, he perked right up and said, Five hundred dollars? Mrs. Elliot, I believe we can be of service to you after all. "I doubt it, I told him. I made this money with the sweat of my brow and the labor of my hands and I've got the rawhide to prove it. I don't inted to leave it with any man that thinks money is confusing.

I have no reason to believe that the human intellect is able to weave a system of physics out of its own resources without experimental labor. Whenever the attempt had been made it has resulted in an unnatural and self-contradictory mass of rubbish.

I know the tendency of the human mind is to do anything rather than think. But mental labor is not thought, and those who have with labor acquired the habit of application often find it much easier to get up a formula than to master a principle.

In this sense, what Hakluyt foresaw in a colonized America was one giant workhouse. This cannot be emphasized enough.

more insidious practices in the colony, wives and children were held accountable for their husband's or father's indentured period of labor.

leaders of Jamestown had borrowed directly from the Roman model of slavery: abandoned children and debtors were made slaves. When indentured adults sold their anticipated labor in return for passage to America, they instantly became debtors, which made their orphaned children a collateral asset.

our relentless class system evolved out of recurring agrarian notions regarding the character and potential of the land, the value of labor, and critical concepts of breeding. Embarrassing lower-class populations have always been numerous, and have always been seen on the North American continent as waste people.

Text after text, scholars never tired of trying to compensate for sentencing women to eternal drudgery, which they themselves abhorred, by dreaming up fancy ways of labeling it, easing their consciences and allowing them to view their self-serving little world of men-gods as a fair, nay noble, thing.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Pitocin, the drug given to pregnant women to jump-start recalcitrant labor, is a synthetic version of oxytocin.

The underground economy. Our present complex tax code allows—even encourages—people to go "under the radar." How bad is this problem? Well, estimates are that the underground economy—those dealing in illegal or illicit behavior such as drugs or other off-the-books labor—amounts to between $1.5 trillion and $3 trillion per year.