Artist Quote by George Grosz

Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting…

— Johnny Marr

More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive from their…

— Noam Chomsky

All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone…

— Immanuel Kant

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

— Lee Trevino

When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put…

— William James

There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away…

— Hank Aaron

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

— Anonymous

In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual…

— Peter Maurin

Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're…

— Paul Krugman

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

— Sakyong Mipham

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

— Peter Drucker