"Without labor nothing prospers."

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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Labor, Creation, Responsibility, Neglect, Irony

"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Labor, Workers, Insecurity, Power, Control

"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Labor, Work, Society, Slavery, Freedom

"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Labor, Work, Values, Equality, Society

"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Labor, Work, Cure, Effort, Humanity

"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

Labor, Work, Humility, Respect, Equality

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."

Barack Obama, American President

Labor, Family, Health, Work

"There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements."

Gordon B. Hinckley, American Clergyman

Labor, Productivity, Dream, Achievement

"Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

Labor, Will

"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Labor, Injustice, Business, Exploitation, Profit

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

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"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

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"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

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"For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds."

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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."

"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."

"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."

"There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements."

"Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association."

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

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"Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near."

"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest."

"There is no success without hardship."

"For Time calls only once, and that determines all."

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

"For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds."