I would say I’d rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. – Natalie Merchant
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens. – Dora Russell
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. – Gyorgy Ligeti
There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it. – Charles Guggenheim
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. – Eduardo Galeano
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. – Georg Simmel
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. – Mother Jones
We labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it. – The Bible 1 Corinthians 4:12.
As industry’s tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor’s leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing. – Paul Harvey
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. – Menander
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
3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed. – Peter Diamandis
Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer. – Pope Benedict XVI
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. – Karl Marx
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. – Karl Marx
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. – Michel de Montaigne
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. – Karl Marx