Quotes & Sayings About Dignity Of Labour

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. — Henry James

In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for achieving freedom and solidarity in economic life; the ways believed to correspond more closely with justice and freedom for the distribution of the means of production and the products of labour among men. Bakunin was an anarchist, and he was a collectivist, an outspoken enemy of communism because he saw in it the negation of freedom and, therefore, of human dignity. — Errico Malatesta

My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour. — Sunday Adelaja

The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. — Oscar Wilde

Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers — Juan Somavia

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect. — Juan Somavia

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Do you know, it seems to me that a great deal of nonsense is talked about the dignity of work. Work is a drug that dull people take to avoid the pangs of unmitigated boredom. It has been adorned with fine phrases, because it is a necessity to most men, and men always gild the pill they're obliged to swallow. Work is a sedative. It keeps people quiet and contented. It makes them good material for their leaders. I think the greatest imposture of Christian times is the sanctification of labour. You see, the early Christians were slaves, and it was necessary to show them that their obligatory toil was noble and virtuous. But when all is said and done, a man works to earn his bread and to keep his wife and children; it is a painful necessity, but there is nothing heroic in it. If people choose to put a higher value on the means than on the end, I can only pass with a shrug of the shoulders, and regret the paucity of their intelligence. — W. Somerset Maugham

The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street. — Sunday Adelaja

For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible. — Sunday Adelaja

It must be noted however, that there were other Europeans that travelled to other parts of the earth, but because they did not take with them the same Protestant culture of dignity of labour, they did not record the same level of success, growth and development as the early Protestant immigrants had done. — Sunday Adelaja

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature. — Narendra Modi

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour. — Mahatma Gandhi

One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour. — Sunday Adelaja

'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia! — Narendra Modi

What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour. — Sunday Adelaja