Quotes About Labor

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

what oral historian Studs Terkel called "a Monday through Friday kind of dying.

Among the Ethiopians it is well known that monkeys deliberately do not speak so they will not be obliged to work.

Neither Deleuze nor Foucault seems aware that the intellectual within globalizing capital, brandishing concrete experience, can help consolidate the international division of labor by making one model of "concrete experience" the model. We are witnessing this in our discipline daily as we see the postcolonial migrant become the norm, thus occluding the native once again.

The Reformation may have resulted in a "Protestant work ethic," but this was not due to the pressure to prove one's election by worldly success, as certain social scientists ludicrously maintain. Rather, the work ethic emerged out of an understanding of the meaning of work and the satisfaction and fulfillment that come from ordinary human labor when seen through the light of the doctrine of vocation.

For, inasmuch as the good works that men do while they live the virtuous life be slain by the Sin following, and also since all the good works that men do while they be in deadly Sin are utterly dead as for to have the life everlasting, well may the man who does no good works sing that new French song, "I have wasted all my time and my labor.

Why," said this Summoner, "ride you then in sundry shapes, and not always in the same one?" "Because we will assume whatever form," said the Fiend, "is most suitable to catch our prey." "And what causes you to undertake all this labor?" asked the Summoner.

If we go to heaven they'll put us to work on the thunder, captain.

The system of logic is the realm of shadows, the world of simple essentialities, freed of all sensuous concretion. To study this science, to dwell and to labor in this realm of shadows, is the absolute culture and discipline of consciousness.

hard work is a misleading term. physical effort & long hours do not constitute hard work. hard work is when someone pays you to do something you'd rather not be doing. anytime you'd rather be doing something other than the thing you're doing...you're doing hard work.

If free trade can really turn all these Third World countries into thriving economies full of entrepreneurs and investors, who's gonna clean the fuckin' toilets around here?

Far off in the bending sky was the pearly light; and she felt the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labor and endurance. She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining.

Pensions, even by those who advocate for them, are often framed as benefits—"extras" granted by an employer to the employed. Yet what is a pension, really? A pension is delayed payment for work already done.

Sometimes our definitions fall short. Take, for example, the way we view income and labor. It simply doesn't cover enough of the work that women, and in particular poor women, are doing - especially in their own households and the vast 'informal' economy in which most of the world's poorest people work.

In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.

'BUMP' deals with all the joys and trauma that comes with a woman's changing body and the struggles of going through labor. It's a beautiful ensemble cast of wonderful people, and I get emotional just being part of the process.

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

I grew up watching my parents work in the fields. That's where I get my work ethic from, because I saw them work hard my whole life.

People work hard.