Labour Quotes

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital."

"Without labor nothing prospers."

Sophocles

"Labor nourishes noble minds."

Seneca

"The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor."

Leo Tolstoy

“Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labour.”

“There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.”

David Ricardo

“Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased.”

“The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.”

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.”