The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905
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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881Man 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, 1879He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCPlough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC