A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.
Adam Smith

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Marshall McLuhan

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Michael Moore

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.
Desmond Tutu

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.
Brigham Young

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
Daniel Webster

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjold

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
Angela Davis

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
Angela Davis