Civilization Quote by Andrew Carnegie

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

— Friedrich Engels

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

— William Ellery Channing

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

— William Morris

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated…

— Leo Tolstoy

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

— Calvin Coolidge

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

— H. C. Bailey

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

— Mahatma Gandhi

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division…

— Ludwig von Mises

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

— John Ruskin

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

— Ferdinand Lassalle

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of…

— Arthur Henderson

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

— Karl Marx