"Honest labor bears a lovely face."

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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

"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

Labor, State

"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

"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Labor, Zeal

"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

"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."

Josiah Warren, American Inventor

Labor, Luxury, Necessity, Now

"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"

Allan Bloom, American Philosopher

Labor, Now

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"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."

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"Age is like love, it cannot be hid."

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"This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school."

Age

"Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree."

Man

"The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives."

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"We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies."

Angels

"Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it."

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

"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

"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."

"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."

"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?"

"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."

"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"

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"What a heaven is love! O what a hell!"

"Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise."

"O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!"

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."

"Age is like love, it cannot be hid."

"This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school."

"Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree."

"The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives."

"We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies."

"Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it."