Work Dignity Quotes

Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

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

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

We're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That's because, on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need. America is productive enough that it could probably shelter, feed, educate, and even provide health care for its entire population with just a fraction of us actually working ... Our problem is not that we don't have enough stuff-it's that we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

“Slavery always degrades labor. The white people who work with their hands are ranked with the other laborers— the slaves ... They feel that they are degraded and despised.

I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.

All work is important, no matter who gives it to you.

Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

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

The biggest problem in Italy is work. And out-of-control immigration damages the labor market because Italians can't compete with illegal workers who are being exploited. So to restore dignity to work, we must control immigration.

We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive instead of settle, because there is dignity in all work.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

People want the dignity of work.

I would rather have a job where I can look up in the table, not downwards.

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.