LABOR QUOTES IV

quotations about labor

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How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

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To assert that labor is not the destiny of man, and that it cannot become for him a source of happiness, is to calumniate the Creator.

C. VIGOUREUX

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There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.

STEVEN GOULD

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I would have labor a blessing, as God designed it should be; and not have it made a curse by oppression.

C. E. LESTER

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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

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There can be no general prosperity where labor has small reward.

LEWIS F. KORNS

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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

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What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

ANNE RADCLIFFE

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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

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You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

G. P. MORRIS

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Think about these imprints left by the material processes of work as the evidence of our presence on the earth, and ... think about how contemporary human beings, living in a western urban environment, can relate to the metaphysics of the labor which enables our lives.

JACKIE NICKERSON

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Labor is King; though the gold wears the crown,
Labor dethrones gold at will;
Labor, when willing, makes money go down,
Labor, though modest, rules still.

HENRY LARGE

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Labor is a category unique to capitalism. In capitalism, labor is the touchstone of social life: it is a material property of human actors, bearing physical, nearly tangible qualities. It is also the touchstone, the foundation, of subjectivity and morality. Labor does not occupy such a position outside capitalism.

MARTHA LAMPLAND

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Labor is the only wealth of the poor, and the largest hands, those of the poor, hold the least, and have the least to hold; the poor are valuable for their thews and sinews; they have limbs to toil and shoulders to bear burdens, but the oppressor remembers not that they have hearts to feel, or mouths to be fed, or that there is a blood stronger than steam. The black iron is meted out to them, whilst the yellow gold gladdens the better sort.

ACTON

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The sweet flesh of labor, blood, tears and sweat consumed across the distance of deserts and seas...

A. E. WILCOX

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Sulky labor and the labor of sorrow are little worth. Whatever a man does with a guilty feeling he is apt to do wrong ; and whatever he does with a melancholy feeling he is likely to do by halves.

JAMES HAMILTON

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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

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No labor is superior to the laborer.

PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON

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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

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