Degrading Quote by William Morris

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour…

— Albert Einstein

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

— Henry Ford

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Ah, why Should life all labour be?

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Labour is not a commodity.

— Sharan Burrow

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

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

— Leonardo da Vinci

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has…

— Abraham Lincoln

Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal…

— Orville Dewey

No individual or people can achieve anything without industry suffering, and sacrifice.

— Fatima Jinnah

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

— Raoul Vaneigem