Quotes About Labor

Caste is not just a division of labor, it is a division of laborers.

Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

It is by the existence of Slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people, who have leisure for intellectual pursuits, and the means of attaining a liberal education.

An intelligent English traveller has characterized as the most miserable and degraded of all beings, "a masterless slave." And is not the condition of the laboring poor of other countries too often that of masterless slaves?

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

I have worked all of my life, so I really don't have any hobbies.

It's one of the most important things in life to provide someone with a job.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Dependence begets subservience and venality," he wrote. There was something romantic, too, in Jefferson's attachment to farming: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." Influenced by

Muller v. Oregon established the constitutionality of labor laws (for women), the legitimacy of sex discrimination in employment, and the place of social science research in the decisions of the courts.

In much of Africa, labor, not land, constituted the sole form of property recognized by law, a form of consolidating wealth and generating revenue, which meant that African states tended to be be small and that, while European wars were fought for land, African wars were fought for labor.

Karl Marx began making predictions about the consequences of capitalism. He saw in the increase in the production of goods a decrease in the value of labor and a widening inequality between the rich and the poor.

Upshur believed that slavery solved the problem of the tensions between capital and labor by giving even a white man of desperate circumstances a reason to accept the economic order: "However poor, or ignorant or miserable he may be, he has yet the consoling consciousness that there is a still lower condition to which he can never be reduced."5 Tyler

POPULISTS' GRIEVANCES WERE many, and bitter. Their best-founded objection was their concern about the federal government's support of the interests of businesses over those of labor.

America is the only country in the world in which employees work more hours per week than the Japanese.

Nothing human is merely human," writes the theologian Ronald Modras. "No common labor is merely common. Classrooms, hospitals, and artists' studios are sacred spaces. No secular pursuit of science is merely secular." Everything that deepens our humanity deepens our knowledge of God.

To pray in the midst of the mundane is simply and strongly to assert that this dull and tiring day is holy and its simple labors are the stuff of God's saving presence for me now.

When you analyze the power of suppliers, be sure to include all of the purchased inputs that go into a product or service, including labor (i.e., your employees).

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes–and six months later you have to start all over again.

If you don't yell during labor, you're a fool. I screamed. Oh, how I screamed. And that was just during the conception.

I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.