LABOR QUOTES IV
quotations about labor
Fame lightens labour.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
No labor is superior to the laborer.
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON
What is Property?
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
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
It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.
HORACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Without work men are utterly undone.
NEVIL SHUTE
Ruined City
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
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.
JOHN RAMSAY MCCULLOCH
The Principles of Political Economy
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?
The sweet flesh of labor, blood, tears and sweat consumed across the distance of deserts and seas...
A. E. WILCOX
Ruth of Many Names & Other Loose-leaf Poems
He that labors is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand.
ITALIAN PROVERB
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
Life in Earnest
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
Labour is the source of every blessing.
AESOP
"The Brazier and His Dog", Aesop's Fables
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
All labor is coerced labor and hence a form of servitude.
STEVEN B. SMITH
"Lincoln's Enlightenment", Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought
Under the regime of property, labor is not a condition, but a privilege.
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON
What is Property?
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
You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.
G. P. MORRIS
attributed, Day's Collacon