Labour Quotes - Page 32

• I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Calling, Weavers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Men, Tables

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• A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Kings, Names, Use

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.66, Rajpal & Sons

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• A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Combination, Magnet, Needed

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pay, Stolen, Workers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Welfare, Should

  Mahadev Haribhai Desai, Gandhi (Mahatma) (1928). “With Gandhiji in Ceylon: a journal of the tour with authorised version of all important speeches”

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• If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sweat, Earth, Paradise

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• It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Looks, Look Up, Contempt

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

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• Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Killing, Machinery, Goods

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Intellectual, Satisfaction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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• Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should, Despise, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Taught, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

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• Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Bread, Revolution

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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• Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Elephants, Employers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wealth, Rich, Poor

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.121, A&C Black

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• This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Daily Tasks, Mad, Wealth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.115, A&C Black

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• What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Two, Gold

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• Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Use, Saving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Political, Use, Disputes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Village, Bread

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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• In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed.

  J. Stalin

  Quality, Doe, Unemployment

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.

  Henry Rollins

  Talking, People, Trying

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

  Narendra Modi

  Empowerment, India, Dignity

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• The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night is different, the people that you work with are all tremendous individuals.

  Joe Bowen

  Jobs, Night, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.

  John Locke

  Men, Hands, Liberty

  Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 9, sec. 124 (1690)

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