Articles Quote by Samuel

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

— Samuel Gompers

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

— Che Guevara

It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him…

— John Ramsay McCulloch

When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a…

— Max Stirner

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“...To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of the amount…

— Karl Polanyi

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

Labour is not a commodity.

— Sharan Burrow

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he…

— Thomas Carlyle

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes…

— Samuel Smiles

Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard.…

— Joseph Murphy