Civil war Quote by Edmund Ruffin

We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve less for…

— Charles Lindbergh

“If he is a worker, the ubiquitous fact of unemployment teaches him that the supply of labour is always greater than the demand.”

— Brealey & Myers

“Sometimes, being lazy is much favourable than labouring without a purpose.”

— Vishal Ostwal

The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of…

— Thomas Paine

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the…

— Adam Smith

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

— Abraham Lincoln

“All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free time. They…

— Ivan Illich

“The point of this, as Marx explains, is to show that according to classical economics the worker becomes a commodity, the production of which…

— Peter Singer

We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Indeed, the history of the recruitment of labor is an uninterrupted story of coercion either through the brute force of poverty or more direct…

— Michael Perelman

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

“The fruits of every laborer are bountiful, ripe and sweet just as the laborer's input. The laws of compensation do not allow one to…

— Tare Munzara