(1795 quotes found)
“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
“The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.”
Karl Marx
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
Grover Cleveland
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.”
Confucius
“If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators”
Bertrand Russell
“Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.”
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo
“There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.”
Bill Cosby
“Those who labor with their minds, rule; those who labor with their bodies, are ruled”
Proverb
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