To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Read Summary
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. Read Summary
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful. Read Summary
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. Read Summary
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. Read Summary
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. Read Summary
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Read Summary
Without labor nothing prospers. Read Summary
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Read Summary
I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations. Read Summary
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. Read Summary
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. Read Summary
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Read Summary
I never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the sense of labor and recompense. I always said I don't want to work for pay, but I want to get paid for my song. Read Summary
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. Read Summary
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. Read Summary
Labor gives birth to ideas. Read Summary
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. Read Summary
Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems. Read Summary
Everything in the world is purchased by labor. Read Summary