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title: "18 Human Labor Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 18 Human Labor quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Human Labor sayings and thoughts."
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> [The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-essential-act-of-war-is-destruction-not-necessarily-of-human/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/the-most-durable-monument-of-human-labor-is-that-which-recalls-the/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-entire-so-called-history-of-the-world-is-nothing-but-the-creation/)

[Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/)

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> [Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-francis/working-for-a-just-distribution-of-the-fruits-of-the-earth-and-human/)

[Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-francis/)

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> [Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-a-reich/marx-saw-exploitation-in-terms-of-the-rewards-of-human-labor-but-we/)

[Charles A. Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-a-reich/)

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> [Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/nature-repairs-her-ravages-repairs-them-with-her-sunshine-and-with/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [Human labor cannot compete with fixed capital - that's just a fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ash-sarkar/human-labor-cannot-compete-with-fixed-capital-that-s-just-a-fact/)

[Ash Sarkar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ash-sarkar/)

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> [I'm an entrepreneur trying to let the American people know that it's not immigrants that are causing economic problems, it is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-yang/i-m-an-entrepreneur-trying-to-let-the-american-people-know-that-it-s/)

[Andrew Yang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-yang/)

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> [Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-howard-taft/socialism-proposes-no-adequate-substitute-for-the-motive-of/)

[William Howard Taft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-howard-taft/)

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> [Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-howard-taft/socialism-proposes-no-adequate-substitute-for-the-motive-of-2/)

[William Howard Taft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-howard-taft/)

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> [The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-ware/the-thing-i-don-t-understand-is-why-so-often-one-hears-discussion-of/)

[Chris Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-ware/)

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> [If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-autor/if-you-think-about-it-many-of-the-great-inventions-of-the-last-200/)

[David Autor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-autor/)

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> [“These include the beliefs that the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency; that technical calculation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-postman/these-include-the-beliefs-that-the-primary-if-not-the-only-goal-of/)

[Neil Postman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-postman/)

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> [Work is a means; it is not an end. And for any tasks that can be performed or eliminated by a capital…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-o-kelso/work-is-a-means-it-is-not-an-end-and-for-any-tasks-that-can-be/)

[Louis O. Kelso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-o-kelso/)

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> [In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sun-yat-sen/in-antiquity-agriculture-and-industry-depended-completely-on-human/)

[Sun Yat-sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sun-yat-sen/)

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> [This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carroll-quigley/this-priesthood-became-a-closed-group-able-to-control-enormous-wealth/)

[Carroll Quigley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carroll-quigley/)

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> [There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/there-is-not-a-tool-an-implement-or-a-machine-that-has-not-resulted/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“Human labor, in general, is still divided into two exclusive categories: the first—solely intellectual and managerial—includes the scientists, artists, engineers, inventors, accountants,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakunin/human-labor-in-general-is-still-divided-into-two-exclusive-categories/)

[Mikhail Bakunin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakunin/)

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