Dirt Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Work is at the heart of human dignity.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

— P. T. Barnum

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society…

— Richard Hofstadter

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a…

— Philip Rieff

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

— Anonymous

“Nearly every person you meet is aiming at a situation in which he will be exempted from the drudgery of laboring with his hands.…

— William A. Alcott

“Because, to do manual work now, means in reality to shut yourself up for ten or twelve hours a day in an unhealthy workshop,…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar…

— Pope Francis