“By the mud-sill theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be all the better for being blind, that he could not tread o…”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable nothing…”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old…”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“The law of worthy life is fundamentally the law of strife. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com
“I thought of the millions of different men by whose combined labor and thought automobiles were produced, from the miners who dug the iron ore out of the earth to the railroad men and teamsters who brought the finished machines to the consumer, so that man, space, and time might be conquered, and ev…”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“As I rode back to Detroit, a vision of Henry Ford's industrial empire kept passing before my eyes. In my ears, I heard the wonderful symphony which came from his factories where metals were shaped into tools for men's service. It was a new music, waiting for the composer with genius enough to give i…”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“The capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to affect it, the idea is grand.”— Edmund Burke, amazon.com
“We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi—do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape…”— Rod Serling, goodreads.com
“A woman in labor A woman in labor suddenly shouted, "Shouldn't! Wouldn't! Couldn't! Didn't! Can't!" "Don't worry," said the doc. "Those are just contractions.”— ept20, reddit.com
“Wealth is production. There may be prospective wealth, putative wealth, potential wealth, in the soil, in the ore veins, in various latent forms—but actual wealth is only that which has been produced into things men require. The more there is of production, therefore, the more there is of wealth.”— William Randolph Hearst, newspapers.com
“As if having a job is self-evidently a good thing, no matter how dangerous, demanding or demeaning it is... Shitty jobs for everyone won’t solve any social problems we now face.”— James Livingston, aeon.co
“There’s not enough work to go around, and what there is of it won’t pay the bills – unless of course you’ve landed a job as a drug dealer or a Wall Street banker, becoming a gangster either way.”— James Livingston, aeon.co
“It is not that a poem or a painting or a palm tree or a person is ‘true,’ but rather that it ignites the desire for truth in us. It gives us an electric brightness, which leaves us prepared to undergo a giant labor.”— Elaine Scarry, amazon.com
“Those who spend their days sweating at their job should not have to sweat about their lives at night.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com