There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: art labor dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without labor nothing prospers. —Sophocles More about this quote Tags: accomplishment labor work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of us continue to work for wages in a highly unequal social system that denies us meaningful work and a decent return for our labor. That simple fact defines a set of common interests of immense democratic potential. —Charles Bergquist More about this quote Tags: potential meaning democracy labor work equality job Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat their own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: politics power labor analogy cannibalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. —Dorothy L. Sayers More about this quote Tags: expectations labor money economics banking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. —Samuel McChord Crothers More about this quote Tags: perfection imperfection failure labor work effort trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Where the whole man is involved, there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor. —Marshall McLuhan More about this quote Tags: labor work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. —Victor Hugo More about this quote Tags: labor thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. —Francis Quarles More about this quote Tags: labor worry rest Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email