Quotes About Labor

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Honor lies in honest toil.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.