Labor Quotes - Page 3

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.

Jack London

Organized labor is organized to take control of an asset away from its rightful owners without paying for it. Organized labor is organization of property by those who don't own it. Organized labor, by driving up the costs of production through coercive means, destroys industries. Organized labor is piracy without the boats and eye patches. Why would anybody want to celebrate organized labor?

Douglas Wilson

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Leo Tolstoy

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Karl Marx

But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes your proclivities and prejudices both?

Chang-rae Lee

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Karl Marx

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

Henry David Thoreau

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Voltaire

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

Criss Jami

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

We are laying the foundation for some new, monstrous civilization. Only now do I realize what price was paid for building the ancient civilizations. The Egyptian pyramids, the temples and Greek statues—what a hideous crime they were! How much blood must have poured on to the Roman roads, the bulwarks, and the city walls. Antiquity—the tremendous concentration camp where the slave was branded on the forehead by his master, and crucified for trying to escape! Antiquity—the conspiracy of the free men against the slaves!.... If the Germans win the war, what will the world know about us? They will erect huge buildings, highways, factories, soaring monuments. Our hands will be placed under every brick, and our backs will carry the steel rails and the slabs of concrete. They will kill off our families, our sick, our aged. They will murder our children.And we shall be forgotten, drowned out by the voices of the poets, the jurists, the philosophers, the priests. They will produce their own beauty, virtue, and truth. They will produce religion.

Tadeusz Borowski

If one looks at modern society, it is obvious that in order to live, the great majority of people are forced to sell their labour power. All the physical and intellectual capacities existing in human beings, in their personalities, which must be set in motion to produce useful things, can only be used if they are sold in exchange for wages. Labour power is usually perceived as a commodity bought and sold nearly like all others. The existence of exchange and wage-labour seems normal, inevitable. Yet the introduction of wage-labour involved conflict, resistance, and bloodshed. The separation of the worker from the means of production, now an accepted fact of life, took a long time and was accomplished by force.In England, in the Netherlands, in France, from the sixteenth century on, economic and political violence expropriated craftsmen and peasants, repressed indigence and vagrancy, imposed wage-labour on the poor. Between 1930 and 1950, Russia decreed a labour code which included capital punishment in order to organise the transition of millions of peasants to industrial wage-labour in less than a few decades. Seemingly normal facts: that an individual has nothing but his labour power, that he must sell it to a business unit to be able to live, that everything is a commodity, that social relations revolve around market exchange… such facts now taken for granted result from a long, brutal process.By means of its school system and its ideological and political life, contemporary society hides the past and present violence on which this situation rests. It conceals both its origin and the mechanism which enables it to function. Everything appears as a free contract in which the individual, as a seller of labour power, encounters the factory, the shop or the office. The existence of the commodity seems to be an obvious and natural phenomenon, and the periodic major and minor disasters it causes are often regarded as quasi-natural calamities. Goods are destroyed to maintain their prices, existing capacities are left to rot, while elementary needs remain unfulfilled. Yet the main thing that the system hides is not the existence of exploitation or class (that is not too hard to see), nor its horrors (modern society is quite good at turning them into media show). It is not even that the wage labour/capital relationship causes unrest and rebellion (that also is fairly plain to see). The main thing it conceals is that insubordination and revolt could be large and deep enough to do away with this relationship and make another world possible.

Gilles Dauvé

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

John Steinbeck

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

Francis of Assisi

Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.

Kamand Kojouri

The first music I ever heard was only one hundred and sixty days after I was conceived. Da dum Da dum Da dum Have you ever heard the sound a blessing makes? This is it. The first thing I ever saw was only one hundred and eighty days after I was conceived. It was a bright light soft like clouds warm like candles. Have you ever seen the colour of a blessing? This is it. The first time I ever suffered was in the three thousand and sixty seconds after I was born. I listened for her heartbeat. I searched for her light. I cried for the first time until she was born. Have you ever known a blessing? A twin is it.

Kamand Kojouri

The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.

Naomi Wolf

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.” The “political revolution” that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.

Noam Chomsky

...the opportunity for overthrowing capitalism has passed – Labor governments are the hope of the world.” From that time his commitment to the ALP was unquestioned.

Mungo MacCallum

Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.

Kamand Kojouri

She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.'You are so full of shit,' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed.

Jodi Picoult

The fruits of every laborer are bountiful, ripe and sweet just as the laborer's input. The laws of compensation do not allow one to have a bumper harvest against poor sowing and maintenance... If you want a good opportunity you must be willing to put input which is beyond the opportunity demands going the extra mile. Dont play your self , you must go the extra mile.

Tare Munzara

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

Ludwig von Mises

Wealth can only be multiplied through work

Sunday Adelaja

The one who gets rich is the one who devotes himself to his work

Sunday Adelaja

Stop listening to fairy that money grows on the tree

Sunday Adelaja

U will have success where you diligently labor

Sunday Adelaja

Opportunity plays a big role in having success

Sunday Adelaja

If you are constantly seeking then sooner or later, you will meet ‘your opportunity

Sunday Adelaja

You will not be able to effectively utilize your inherited wealth if you do not work diligently

Sunday Adelaja

An opportunity leading to your blessing can totally change your life

Sunday Adelaja

Continue to diligently work and God’s principles will work in your life as it worked in Ruth’s life

Sunday Adelaja

A wise man loves any kind of work, be it spiritual, physical or intellectual

Sunday Adelaja

If you are possessed by the desire to be useful for God on this earth, He will honor you, you will prosper and your life will be a testimony of success

Sunday Adelaja

God is faithful, He will fulfill His word

Sunday Adelaja

Grace is available to us from God, but it is located in our place of work

Sunday Adelaja

If you work, you will find favor from God and you will become a rich man

Sunday Adelaja

You will find solution, if you have a passionate, strong desire to breakthrough

Sunday Adelaja

A living dog is better than a dead lion

Sunday Adelaja

Do not give in to the provocation of the devil

Sunday Adelaja

The most important condition necessary for our success is to have a sincere love for God

Sunday Adelaja

A ministry gives us the opportunity to establish roots

Sunday Adelaja

Persistent work always brings a person successful results

Sunday Adelaja

It is dangerous to become useless to God

Sunday Adelaja

If you want to be successful, begin to work zealously and persistently

Sunday Adelaja

Every work begins with a search

Sunday Adelaja

If you do not begin to search, then you cannot find anything

Sunday Adelaja

If you want to be prosperous, then you will have to become a seeker

Sunday Adelaja

You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information

Sunday Adelaja

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

John Wooden

Specific knowledge is needed in every work, if we want to have success

Sunday Adelaja

Nothing is born into this world without labor.

Rob Liano

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Amit Kalantri

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

Amit Kalantri

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

Amit Kalantri

Never stop seeking, even when it seems there is no hope

Sunday Adelaja

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

Ina May Gaskin

Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.

Peggy Vincent

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