Labor Quotes

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.