Quotes About Labor

Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried.

Our civilization overflows with charity—which is simply willingness to hand back to labor as generous gracious alms a small part of the loot from the just wages of labor. But of real help—just wages for honest labor—there is little, for real help would disarrange the system, would abolish the upper classes. She

The job of the union, he insisted, could be reduced to a simple idea: the protection of the slowest and least efficient worker.

the following collective result. in which surplus capital and surplus labor exist side by side and there seems to be absolutely no way to put them together to do useful things.

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

Fear God and work hard.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

[History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges.

All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."

Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.

In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.

So many of us have believed that we need to labor and perform for God so that we can gain an identity, so that we might be accepted. But in the Kingdom, we start off accepted.

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.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.