Departed Quote by Homer

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

— Homer

“You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men?…

— Victor Hugo

“The modern age has carried with it a theoretical glorification of labor and has resulted in a factual transformation of the whole of society…

— Hannah Arendt

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade…

— Benjamin Franklin

No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Whenever he had spoilt a piece of work he always set himself below the meanest labourer who had at least brawn enough to do…

— Émile Zola

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

— Dag Hammarskjold

“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.” I gave further thought to the life of what we…

— Gary Keesee

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work;…

— Henry David Thoreau

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them…

— Woodrow Wilson