Quotes About Labor

There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast.

'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

Adam was a gardener.

I have had my labor for my travail.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.

No one is exploited economically as thoroughly as you and I, because in most countries where people are exploited they know it. You and I are in this country being exploited and sometimes we don't know it.

Honor appears to me to be an object of great importance, since men submit to every kind of labor, and undergo every sort of danger, with the desire of attaining it.

The gods give nothing really good and beautiful without labor.

though he would deliver that speech twenty-eight miles away, in Ann Arbor, no place seemed more important to his mission than Detroit, a great city that honored labor, built cars, made music, promoted civil rights, and helped lift working people into the middle class. "This city and its people are the herald of hope in America," he said. "Prosperity in America must begin here in Detroit.

He acknowledges that endorsing push-backs at the National Conference in July was only the latest in a long line of catch-ups with the Coalition's refugee policies. But he is confident Labor won't be forced to go any further: the worst has been reached. But isn't that what Labor always says? "Time will tell but I know that if we want more humanity in our system, I'll do a better job than the other fellow.

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

So? Most people hate their jobs. That's why they're called jobs.

Hard work, says the Scottish proverb, never killed a man.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Labor, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

Slavery makes other people do the hard work. It is no accident that slave labor has historically been associated with tropical and semitropical climes.* The same holds for division of labor by gender: in warm lands particularly, the women toil in the fields and tend to housework, while the men specialize in warfare and hunting; or in modern society, in coffee, cards, and motor vehicles. The aim is to shift the work and pain to those not able to say no.

Lincoln once said that his father taught him how to work but not how to enjoy it.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

By the work one knows the workman.

With his arms swinging he stretches twice. Spade work has bent his stocky frame. At the end of the second stretch, he farts. It's his ritual.

Il s'appelait le Louis. Crevé, fin crevé. La gerbe tremblait au bout de sa fourche, et toujours à s'en prendre au bon dieu. Comme si c'était lui, le responsable ! Au fond, c'était peut-être la première fois qu'il travaillait.