It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891Quotes
A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889