Quotes About Labor

I am opposed to 'right to work' legislation because it does nothing for working people, but instead gives employers the right to exploit labor.

I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.

Then he added, in an almost threatening tone: Without these rasping hands, professor, not a chair would exist, or a building, a car, nothing, not even you; if we workers stopped working everything would stop, the sky would fall to earth and the earth would shoot up the sky, the plants would take over the cities, the Arno would flood your fine houses, and only those who have always worked would know how to survive, and as for you two, you with all your books, the dogs would tear you to pieces.

Questa è la situazione nella fabbrica dove sto io. Il sindacato non c'è mai entrato e gli operai sono nient'altro che povera gente sotto ricatto, soggetti alla legge del padrone, cioè io ti pago e quindi ti possiedo e possiedo la tua vita, la tua famiglia e tutto quello che ti circonda, e se non fai come ti dico ti rovino.

qui noi lavoratori non siamo stati mai neanche dentro le zone salariali, stiamo fuori da tutte le regole, stiamo sotto zero. Perciò è una bestemmia dire: lasciatemi in pace, io ho i miei problemi e mi voglio fare i fatti miei. Ognuno nel posto che gli è toccato, deve fare quello che può.

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth. There is no other source, except land, the raw material….Every bit of capital that exists was made by labor, just as everything that is consumed is.

There is no work so mean, but it would amply serve me to furnish me with sustenance.

La tierra de Alvargonzález se colmará de riqueza, y el que la tierra ha labrado no duerme bajo la tierra».

A person who says publicly that the people are his life admits indiscreetly that because of the labor of most of them only he could lead a luxurious lifestyle.

He who has actually worked sincerely and diligently in a private company can tell quite well how the hell on earth look like.

He works like a mule for his spouse does the job like a fool in the company or the business house. That's the rule number 1 of the slavery.

Malingerers are flying and enjoying on the foreign shore whereas sincere employees are toiling and sweating in the market and shop floor in the private sector organization.

People who do not go OUT for WORK and get own physical labour jobs done through others only needs to do WORKOUT inside room and in the same amount.

The preachers earn money a plenty without any effort while the teachers hands remain often empty in spite of doing hard work.

There is nothing called the dignity of work in any job of the organisation.

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.

Economists consistently find that our marginal productivity tanks with work hours beyond eight or ten per day.

But at the same time, a bloated welfare state that nudges middle-class citizens away from the labor force is moving our society away from the dignity of earned success.

People in the precariat find themselves in the situation where the level of their education and qualifications is almost always higher than the sort of labour that they're going to be able to obtain.

I hope that I never have to work in a place that sells large quantities of jeans ever again. Jeans are rough! It used to kill my hands. I know that sounds prissy - I'm not prissy at all. But it did; it killed my hands. It was awful.

It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.