LABOR QUOTES IV
quotations about labor
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
WILBERFORCE
attributed, Day's Collacon
No labor is superior to the laborer.
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON
What is Property?
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
HENRY GEORGE
Progress and Poverty
One of the huge disadvantages of being an American is that most of the hard labor is done for us.
JOSH DAFFERN
"10 Things That Will Ruin Your 2016 If You're Not Careful", Patheos, February 17, 2016
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
remarks at the 75th Anniversary Celebration of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., "To Men of Vision and High Purpose", May 3, 1941
The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
memorandum filed with Assembly Bill number 2222 entitled "An Act to amend chapter four hundred and fifteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled 'An Act in relation to labor'"
You don't deserve any more than your labor is worth, it doesn't matter how rich a business owner is. If you don't risk your own wealth to start your own business, you don't deserve to become wealthy like those business owners you envy.
BURGESS KRELL
user comment, "Taxpayers No Longer Have to Pay Cops to Work for Union", WND, August 11, 2015
Without work men are utterly undone.
NEVIL SHUTE
Ruined City
It's hard to find cheap labor in the land of the brave and free. And the only thing that's better, that's if they work for free.
RICHARD FORD
Poems Written by a Government Prisoner in Georgia, USA
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
THEODORE PARKER
Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
STEVEN GOULD
Jumper
Labor is both a transformation of nature, and a realization of human meanings in it. Labor is a happening or a doing in which the unity of man and nature is constituted in a certain way, on the basis of their mutual transformation: man objectifies himself in labor and the object is torn out of its original context, adapted and processed. Through labor, man is objectified and the object is humanized. In humanizing nature and in objectifying (realizing) meanings man forms a human world. Man lives in a world of his own artifacts and meanings.
KAREL KOSIK
Dialectics of the Concrete: A Study on Problems of Man and World
Under the regime of property, labor is not a condition, but a privilege.
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON
What is Property?
For Marx, labor is living, the source of life, because human life is the survival of a biological and social subject through the material processes of production.
PHENG CHEAH
What Is a World?
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
No man or corporation has a right to employ any man without giving him the equivalent of his labor.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
Apparently your labor is the opposite of your sexuality in California: You can sell it, but you can't give it away for free.
SCOTT SHACKFORD
"California Destroys Winery Over Use of Volunteers", Reason, September 16, 2014
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
ANNE RADCLIFFE
attributed, Day's Collacon
He that labors is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand.
ITALIAN PROVERB