Shared Labor Quotes

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

We would surrender once and for all this chimerical notion of one day of universal rest, and institute three days a week, or if necessary more, as; days of partial rest; i.e., on which the different sections of he community would be freed from labor in turn. In this way each section would be able rely to profit, physically and mentally, by their leisure, inasmuch as they would have the advantage of the labor of the rest of the world just as another day the rest of the world would have the advantage of their labor.

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of #‎ collaboration .

Many hands make light work.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.

I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that the production of wealth is not the work of any one man, and the acquisition of great fortunes is not possible without the co-operation of multitudes of men.