Activity Quote by Robert Nozick

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

— Robert Nozick

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are…

— William Petty

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce…

— William Cobbett

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

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

— Karl Marx

The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as…

— Karl Marx

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

— Thomas F. Wilson

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes…

— Lucy Larcom

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 the divine law of our existence.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

“If one looks at modern society, it is obvious that in order to live, the great majority of people are forced to sell their…

— Gilles Dauvé

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker…

— Mark Twain