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Quotes About Labourer

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
~ Danny Boyle
They must learn to respect each other and be respected again – the intellectual must respect the manual labourer and vice versa. Neither can exist without the other. From them both will emerge the new man: the man of the coming German Reich! Adolf Hitler, Landsberg, December 18, 1924
~ David Irving
In this popular sense, therefore, labour, like commodities, may be said to have a real and a nominal price. Its real price may be said to consist in the quantity of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which are given for it; its nominal price, in the quantity of money. The labourer is rich or poor, is well or ill rewarded, in proportion to the real, not to the nominal price of his labour.
~ Adam Smith
For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
~ Anonymous
'Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain' is a film seen through my eyes. I play a labourer.
~ Rajpal Yadav
I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.
~ Cliff Curtis
Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Wigs were formerly used instead of brooms in Ireland for sweeping or dusting tables, stairs, etc. The Editor doubted the fact till he saw a labourer of the old school sweep down a flight of stairs with his wig; he afterwards put it on his head again with the utmost composure, and said, 'Oh, please your honour, it's never a bit the worse.
~ Maria Edgeworth
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
~ George Orwell
Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
~ Mamata Banerjee
Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.
~ Heidi Baker
The callous palms of the labourer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers of idleness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow; he had good strength to work at times; but the times could not be relied on to coincide with the hours of requirement; and, having been unaccustomed to the regular toil of the day-labourer, he was not particularly persistent when they did so coincide.
~ Thomas Hardy
Grecia dio a conocer al hombre que sin Dios no era nada, daba lo mismo que fuera un labrador o un dictador sobre un trono esmaltado. Porque como dijo Epicteto: Adonde quiera que vaya, encontrare el sol, la luna y las estrellas, encontrare sueños y presagios y conversaré con Dios
~ Taylor Caldwell
Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.
~ Richard Jefferies
A young farm labourer passed me. I suddenly understood what Traherne meant when he said that men looked to him like angels. Again, it was a matter of seeing through to the inward vitality, the essence—what Boehme called the 'signature'. I smiled at the farm labourer, and he smiled back and said: 'Mornin' sir.' I felt suddenly very happy.
~ Colin Wilson
Himmler announced today that a Polish farm labourer had been hanged for sleeping with a German woman. No race pollution is to be permitted. Another
~ William L. Shirer
Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.
~ Philip Massinger
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
~ David Ricardo
Service I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia el-Adawia.
~ Idries Shah
A king is but a foolish labourer Who wastes his blood to be another's dream. -from "Fergus and the Druid
~ W.B. Yeats
What is thus improperly regarded as profit, instead of as part of capital, is consumed by the entrepreneur or passed on either to the consumer in the form of price-reductions that would not otherwise have been made or to the labourer in the form of higher wages, and the government proceeds to tax it as income or profits. In any case, consumption of capital results from the fact that monetary depreciation falsifies capital accounting.
~ Ludwig von Mises