LABOR QUOTES IV
quotations about labor
It has been said "that he who works prays;" and certainly one of the best prayers that a working man with a large and young family can offer up is to steadily stick to his work. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour of the world, was the son of a working carpenter, and it is believed by many Theologians that our Saviour followed that trade (whatever it was in those days) until he was thirty years of age. If then God's only Son, the right hand of the throne of heaven, the King of men, the only sinless, spotless, perfect child, youth, and man, was a labourer, IS THERE NOT DIGNITY IN LABOUR? The happiest man is the working man, and if there is any real happiness in this world it is in the neat but humble cottage, where peace and love reign, and the industrious wife is the true helpmate of the working man; and not in the palace, where the bloated aristocrat, recovering from an attack of gout or some other punishment for excess, sits, trying to kill time, with bleared eyes (and often of idiotic expression) gazing into vacancy, surrounded by all that wealth can buy or human ingenuity contrive to make him comfortable, but with all not happy.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On the Dignity of Labour", Short Essays
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
There can be no general prosperity where labor has small reward.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
STEVEN GOULD
Jumper
The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
memorandum filed with Assembly Bill number 2222 entitled "An Act to amend chapter four hundred and fifteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled 'An Act in relation to labor'"
To assert that labor is not the destiny of man, and that it cannot become for him a source of happiness, is to calumniate the Creator.
C. VIGOUREUX
attributed, Day's Collacon
Labor is a category unique to capitalism. In capitalism, labor is the touchstone of social life: it is a material property of human actors, bearing physical, nearly tangible qualities. It is also the touchstone, the foundation, of subjectivity and morality. Labor does not occupy such a position outside capitalism.
MARTHA LAMPLAND
The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
WILBERFORCE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Think about these imprints left by the material processes of work as the evidence of our presence on the earth, and ... think about how contemporary human beings, living in a western urban environment, can relate to the metaphysics of the labor which enables our lives.
JACKIE NICKERSON
"Exhibit: Jackie Nickerson", Crave, March 14, 2016
Apparently your labor is the opposite of your sexuality in California: You can sell it, but you can't give it away for free.
SCOTT SHACKFORD
"California Destroys Winery Over Use of Volunteers", Reason, September 16, 2014
I would have labor a blessing, as God designed it should be; and not have it made a curse by oppression.
C. E. LESTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Labour is the purgatory of the erring.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Lucretia; or, The children of Night
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
HENRY GEORGE
Progress and Poverty
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
EDMUND MORRIS
Theodore Rex
Labor is the only wealth of the poor, and the largest hands, those of the poor, hold the least, and have the least to hold; the poor are valuable for their thews and sinews; they have limbs to toil and shoulders to bear burdens, but the oppressor remembers not that they have hearts to feel, or mouths to be fed, or that there is a blood stronger than steam. The black iron is meted out to them, whilst the yellow gold gladdens the better sort.
ACTON
Acton; or, The Circle of Life: A Collection of Thoughts and Observations Designed to Delineate Life, Man, and the World
Sulky labor and the labor of sorrow are little worth. Whatever a man does with a guilty feeling he is apt to do wrong ; and whatever he does with a melancholy feeling he is likely to do by halves.
JAMES HAMILTON
Life in Earnest
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
THEODORE PARKER
Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
The sweet flesh of labor, blood, tears and sweat consumed across the distance of deserts and seas...
A. E. WILCOX
Ruth of Many Names & Other Loose-leaf Poems
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
ANNE RADCLIFFE
attributed, Day's Collacon
You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.
G. P. MORRIS
attributed, Day's Collacon