In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.
— Bertrand RussellPassion is the driving element of purpose. When one is possessed with it, labor is not perceived as toil - it is revealed as love.
— T.F. HodgeDIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.
— Sunday AdelajaWork was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.
— Criss JamiThe plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
— Samuel RichardsonThe concept of dignity of labour took people off the street.
— Sunday AdelajaPersistent work always brings a person successful results.
— Sunday AdelajaMinimum standards to promote workers' wages, health and safety, to safeguard the community against pollution and degradation, and to ensure basic life goods for all as a basic contract for civil society was between 1945 and the mid-1970s, in fact, a rapidly evolving framework which inhibited the causes and effects of a corporate market system committed to an opposed goal.
— John McMurtryIn accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as such is slavery, and that no man can feel a personal pride in being a laborer. A man can be proud of being a worker – someone, that is, who fabricates enduring objects, but in our society, the process of fabrication has been so rationalized in the interests of speed, economy and quantity that the part played by the individual factory employee has become too small for it to be meaningful to him as work, and practically all workers have been reduced to laborers. It is only natural, therefore, that the arts which cannot be rationalized in this way – the artist still remains personally responsible for what he makes – should fascinate those who, because they have no marked talent, are afraid, with good reason, that all they have to look forward to is a lifetime of meaningless labor. This fascination is not due to the nature of art itself, but to the way in which an artists works; he, and in our age, almost nobody else, is his own master. The idea of being one’s own master appeals to most human beings, and this is apt to lead to the fantastic hope that the capacity for artistic creation is universal, something nearly all human beings, by virtue, not by some special talent, but due to their humanity, could do if they tried.
— W.H. AudenU will have success where you diligently labor.
— Sunday Adelaja