Quotes About Labor

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

We give our love, our labor, our knowledge, and our experience—so that one day he or she will have the inner strength and confidence to leave us.

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labor, which is what gives money its value.

Procreative choice is for women an equivalent of the demand for the legally limited working day which Marx saw as the great watershed for factory workers in the nineteenth century. The struggles for that "modest Magna Carta," as Marx calls it… did not end capitalism, but they changed the relation of the workers to their own lives.

Everyone had their own machete. Because that's how you cut grass in Africa. There were no lawn mowers. We had to tend our own patches. I still feel as if I have got the blisters.

When you do something that's a labor of love, where you care about the customers' trust and putting a product that's A1 out there, you will be successful, you just have to be patient.

In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

I had a lot of jobs when I was younger. Where I grew up, there was a lot of agricultural jobs, so I worked on a lot of farms. I worked in the pea fields, harvesting peas.

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

I ask to live a worker; otherwise I will die a warrior.

The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.

Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs, in that I attend men and not women, and I look after their souls when they are in labor, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

But replacing workers and making the remaining ones more productive are literally the same thing. If

Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true.

The greatness of work is inside man.