Barbaric Quote by Karl Marx

The insignificant labor; the great create.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and…

— Adam Smith

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered.…

— Plato

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

— John Ruskin

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

“When you reach out your vaunted strong hands for our palaces and purpled ease, we will show you what strength is. In roar of…

— Jack London

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled…

— Mary McCarthy

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

— Henry Ford

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich