"No labour is too mean for one..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
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“Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.”
“We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.”
“There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow”
More on Labor
“I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.”
“Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.”
“When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.”
More on Dignity
“To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.”
“My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows, these are cogent enough. It rests essentially on the view that the free market is the only safe way of ensuring that productive effort is directed towards supplying what individuals actually want, and in a way which secures the dignity and independence of the worker.”
“A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.”