“...to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, [and] criticise after dinner...” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years. — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle. — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. — Mariano Rajoy Copy Share Image
Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
We're finding that very well-educated people, people who have done everything right, are behind, really behind. And they are hoping they can… — Teresa Ghilarducci Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull… — Bill Cobbs Copy Share Image
'The Last Starfighter' was the first movie I did in the U.S. It was an absolute joy to be a part of… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from… — Naomi Wallace Copy Share Image
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well, I think we are seeing some shifts in manufacturing. China, when you go in and you talk to the big manufacturers… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
“The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it. — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers. — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image