Quotes About Labor

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favour of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favour of the masters.

The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

We need the work. We'll do a

The Oxen and the Axle-Trees A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out. Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.

Unions gave us the forty-hour workweek, the weekend, and the middle class.

By one estimate, U.S. output per worker hour was double Germany's and five times Japan's.

Odiar a los chatarros es natural... Le roban el trabajo a la gente, apestan a aceite. Yo creo que los tíos de Una Carne aciertan de pleno...

Therefore let us sell our labour for what it is worth. And if an industry cannot buy our labour, let that industry die. But let us not sell our labour cheap to keep an industry alive.

Back trouble was the curse of the builder and

Mari sunt satisfac?iile unei vie?i laborioase, a?ezate ?i lini?tite, dar ?i mai mare este atrac?ia abisului.

Only the interior life can sustain us in the hidden, backbreaking labor of planting the seed that seems to go so long without fruit.

Afterwards, when they went around the table discussing the government's 'achievements', Clark's answer was 'that we have really succeeded in putting a lot of people out of work'. There was grim laughter at that, but he was absolutely serious. The unions, he thought, had been 'disciplined by the fear of being put on the dole and this is a considerable, though brutal, achievement'. But apart from that, he could think of nothing else.

After picking, grapes were crushed with bare feet. The must, or grape juice, was then poured into giant vats, followed by a process called pigeage, in which naked workers plunged themselves into the frothy liquid. Holding tightly to chains that had been fastened to overhead beams, the workers would then raise and lower themselves over and over again, stirring the must with their entire bodies so as to aerate the mixture and enhance the fermentation.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

Work is a four-letter word that ends with "K.

WORK is a four-lettered word, that ends with a "K

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.