Quotes about Labor

Love turns work into rest.

As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I hereupon offer my own poor endeavors.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

The world of efficiency and anonymity dehumanises us. We have to ask who the invisible people are. Who makes our clothes? Who picks our vegetables? And how are they treated?

How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.

The baby boom psyche embraces a powerful presumption that education is a key to moving away from manual labor, and dirt—two undeniable ingredients of farming.