LABOR QUOTES II

quotations about labor

Labor quote

It is better to drink the wine of industry from an earthen cup, than the wine of indolence from a silver tankard.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its price tag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.

LEAH HAGER COHEN

Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things


As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

THALES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

KARL MARX

The Communist Manifesto

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Fame lightens labour.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


He who labors diligently need never despair.

MENANDER

attributed, Day's Collacon


He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

SAADI

attributed, Day's Collacon


It has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"Fragments of a Tariff Discussion", December 1, 1847

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As salt savors the broth, so does labor give a relish to pleasure.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

DEMOSTHENES

attributed, Day's Collacon


I have two problems with hard labor: hard and labor.

JAROD KINTZ

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Labor has a bitter root, but a sweet taste.

HALM

attributed, Day's Collacon


He that labors is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand.

ITALIAN PROVERB


It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

LUDWIG VON MISES

Liberalism

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Labor in all its variety, corporeal and mental, is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers, under the direction and control of will.

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND

Gold-Foil

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Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest,
And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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Labour is the root of riches.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

ERASMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


The motto marked upon our foreheads, written upon our door-posts, channeled in the earth, and wafted upon the waves, is and must be, "Labor is honorable, and idleness is dishonorable."

T. CARLYLE

attributed, Life's Common Way