Labor Quotes

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things dep...

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was m...

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, th...

Exercise is labor without weariness.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state...

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced....

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the bes...

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed...

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we...

The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the s...

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never h...

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never ...

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise...

The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By ...

The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the ma...

These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] ...

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

On first hearing that little voice – as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my...

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love....

If improving conditions in the workplace for women had been a central agenda for feminist movement i...

Addressing the economic plight of women may ultimately be the feminist platform that draws a collect...

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstance...

Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for ...

But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent sol...

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain...

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you...

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from a...

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten...

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He ...

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams bec...

A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest to...

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupi...

Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is...

Labor conquers all things.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can supp...

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such pr...

She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'Yo...

All wealth is the product of labor.

...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capab...

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never kn...

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man...

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled ...

Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the...

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the d...

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is t...

But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags...

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer...

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish...

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the streng...

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of l...

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates h...

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as...

All labor has dignity.