(1790 quotes found)
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
Albert Einstein
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor”
Mark Twain
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.”
“We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in the love of mankind.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another”
Anatole France
“Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.”
Karl Marx
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”
Adam Smith
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo
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