Labor Quote by Aristotle Download Open image “The end of labor is to gain leisure.” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Labor Leisure Work
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Maryland will always have the backs of working people and organized labor. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image