119 Quotes About Labour

"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."

"But on analysis of this concept it becomes clear that though private property appears to be the source, the cause of alienated labour, it is really the consequence, just as the gods in the beginning are not the cause but the effect of man's intellectual confusion. Later this relationship becomes reciprocal."

"Throw the puppy into the water. If it swims, well. If it sinks, well. But do not tie a rope around its throat and weight it with a brick and then assert its incapacity to keep afloat."

"Life is simply a labour of love."

"On her lips, which were dry, was a new shade of lipstick, by Tussy; her doctor had ordered her to put on lipstick and powder right in the middle of labour; he and Sloan both thought it was important for a maternity patient to keep herself up to the mark."

"And these, all labouring for a lord,Eat not the fruit of their own hands:Which is the heaviest of all plagues,To that man's mind, who understands.- The Sick King in Bokhara"

"Let us labour diligently in love"

"Gustav Mahler always carried Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre with him on concert tours, for instance, and read aloud from the Critique of Pure Reason to Alma when she was in labour."

"Life is enduring labour."