Answers Quote by Eugene V. Debs

Labor humanizes, exalts.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

— J. G. Holland

Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.

— Orville Dewey

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

— John L. Lewis

[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies…

— Samuel Gompers

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

— Thomas Jefferson

Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty,…

— Karl Marx

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Labor is the activity which corresponds to the biological process of the human body, whose spontaneous growth, metabolism, and eventual decay are bound to…

— Hannah Arendt

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

— Thomas Carlyle