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

SAADI

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


Labour is the root of riches.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Labor, laughing at difficulties, spans majestic rivers, carries viaducts over marshy swamps, suspends bridges over deep ravines, pierces the solid mountains with the dark tunnel, blasting rocks and filling hollows, and, while linking together all nations of the earth pities the proud fool and laughs him to scorn. He shall pass to dust, forgotten; but Labor will live forever, glorious in its conquests and monuments, and will keep organized no matter how many temporary defeats it endures.

NEWMAN HALL

"The Dignity of Labor", The Golden Treasury of Poetry and Prose


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

JAROD KINTZ

$3.33


Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

WILLIAM COWPER

Hope

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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

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'"


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

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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

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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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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

T. S. ELIOT

The Rock

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As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

THALES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

EDMUND MORRIS

Theodore Rex


The qualities of labor, like tools,
Grow brighter when used.

SUSAN H. BOGGS

"Labor", Poems


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

"Exhibit: Jackie Nickerson", Crave, March 14, 2016


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

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Deserted Village

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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

Progress and Poverty

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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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