Labor Necessity Quotes

Neither capital can do without labor, nor labor without capital.

The rapid population of the State of Ohio sufficiently evinces, in the opinion of your committee, that the labor of slaves is not necessary to promote the growth and settlement of colonies in that region.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.