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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCE, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to. I wish to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech, Mar. 5, 1860
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
BERTOLT BRECHT, Baal
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
- How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
- A youth of labour with an age of ease.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Deserted Village
The labor unions are group efforts in the direction of democracy. Like the political efforts in the same direction, they become many times stultified and lead up blind alleys. But the effort creates power. While the economic gains are themselves important and are measures of strength, the significance of the labor union is its assertion of the manhood of labor.
HELEN MAROT, American Labor Unions
No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on Virginia
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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