Quotes About Labor

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, small farmers were being squeezed out, workingmen were working twelve hours a day for a bare living; profits were for the rich, the law was for the rich, the cops were for the rich;

We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

I've never bashed a union in my life.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.

I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life.

My life is one demd horrid grind.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

Ah, why Should life all labour be?

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

All of America's new jobs have been generated by independent work, which has risen by 7.8 per cent a year.65 The next time an economist boasts about America's low unemployment rate, remember that number means something very different from what it used to.

All of America's new jobs have been generated by independent work, which has risen by 7.8 per cent a year.65

In the West we spend half our time fretting about low-skilled immigrants. We should be worrying at least as much about high-skilled offshoring.

the Toil Index – the number of working hours it takes a median worker to pay the median rent in one of America's big cities. In 1950 it took forty-five hours per month. A generation later it had edged up to fifty-six hours. Today it takes 101 hours.

Moshe Adler, in his article "Overthrowing the Overpaid," points out, economists David Ricardo and Adam Smith, writing more than two hundred years ago, "concluded that what a person earns is determined not by what that person has produced but by that person's bargaining power. Why? Because production is typically carried out by teams…and the contribution of each member cannot be separated from that of the rest.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

When the workers, whose only pleasure was sleeping, crawled into their beds, they slumbered like cattle.

Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.