Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. —Lord Acton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a working class — strong and happy — among both rich and poor. There is an idle class — weak, wicked, and miserable — among both rich and poor. —John Ruskin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are. —Rosellen Brown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it. —Fannie Hurst More about this quote Tags: people perception money wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world was one of great contrasts, she thought, and if the richest part of it was to be fenced off so that people like herself could only look at it with no expectation of ever being able to get inside it, then it would be better to have been born blind so you couldn't see it, born deaf so you couldn't hear it, born with no sense of touch so you couldn't feel it. Better still, born with no brain so that you would be completely unaware of anything, so that you would never know there were places that were filled with sunlight and good food and where children were safe. —Ann Petry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Getting a living under capitalism . . . is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition. —Eugene V. Debs More about this quote Tags: wonder fear money pain crime doubt capitalism struggle submission Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed, it's called a depression. —Jesse Jackson More about this quote Tags: USA race blackness unemployment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility. —Lewis Mumford More about this quote Tags: society work inequality class leisure sterility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's no one to live in it. —Arthur Miller More about this quote Tags: living money housing mortgages Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Personally I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic. —Barbara Ehrenreich More about this quote Tags: ethics work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat for eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy. —William Faulkner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day. Not because he likes it, but because he can't think of anything else to do. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm a secretary. On a good day I type ninety-five words per minute; on a bad day I show up drunk in my pajamas. —Mary Beth Cowan More about this quote Tags: work drinking secretary typing bad days Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email