Quotes About Labor

Political, ethnic, cultural, and economic divisions endure, but they do not undermine the fundamental unity. Indeed, some divisions are made possible only by an overarching common structure. In the economy, for example, the division of labor cannot succeed unless everyone shares a single market.

Tangan-tangan tambahan itu teramat diperlukan di ladang-ladang. Namun mulut-mulut ekstra itu dengan cepat menghabiskan surplus makanan, sehingga lebih banyak lagi ladang yang harus ditanami.

História foi algo que um grupo muito pequeno de pessoas fez, enquanto todos os outros aravam os campos e carregavam baldes de água

Peasants had to work harder than foragers to eke out less varied and nutritious food, and they were far more exposed to disease and exploitation.

Descul?ii strig?: p?mînt, p?mînt, p?mînt!... P?mînt este ?i, totu?i, p?mînt nu este. Sau, nu e al cui îl strope?te cu sudoarea.

I will produce a lowly Primitive; "Man" shall be his name. I will create a Primitive Worker; He will be charged with the service of the gods, that they might have their ease.

I had felt the strange happiness countless times. When a shovel met my hand, the damp of a hemp bag soaked my shoulder or rice weighed down my back, I entered a mindless oblivion, as if I had put on magic shoes and could jump out into the abyss, could even jump into death.

Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands.

Life has a purpose and that is to be happy, and happiness is the fruits of our love and labor.

In a book published at the time, a lace manufacturer admitted that he expected his workers to turn a few tricks on the side to make up for his not paying them a living wage. Soon lace, including crocheted lace, began to be seen as morally tainted—it's made by prostitutes! As Donna Kooler suggests in The Encyclopedia of Crochet, this may even explain how the word "hooker" came to have such wayward connotations.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

Much of our success was due to the much-abused institution of African servitude, for it enabled the white men to go into the army, and leave the cultivation of their fields and the care of their flocks, as well as of their wives and children, to those who, in the language of the Constitution, were "held to service or labor.

All but a prophetic few must go about God's work in very quiet, very unspectacular ways. And as you labor to know Him, and to know that He knows you; as you invest your time--and your convenience--in quiet, unassuming service, you will indeed find that "He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up" (Matthew 4:6).

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.