含有“劳动”字样的英语名言

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劳动，英语是labor，但是其含义不仅是“劳动”。故下面摘录的英语名言都含有labor这个词，但不一定都译为“劳动”。以此祝大家劳动节快乐！

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington

拼命努力使你胸中的所谓“良知”天火之微弱火星永远闪耀。

----乔治. 华盛顿

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle

劳作的目的是为了获得悠闲。

----亚里士多德

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Theodore Roosevelt

成立工会组织是至关重要的。这是组织的时代。资本组织起来了，因此，劳工也必须组织起来。

----西奥多. 罗斯福，美国第26任总统

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama

正是劳工运动争取来了我们如今视为理所当然的很多东西:40小时工作周、最低工资、家庭假期、健康保险、社会保障、联邦医疗保险、退休金计划，等等。中产阶级保障大厦的基石上全都镌有工会的印记。

----奥巴马总统

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

众神给西绪弗斯的判决是，命令他永不停歇地把石头推到山顶上，可是，石头到了山顶又会由于其自重而再度滚下山来。众神认为，没有比无效又无望的劳动更可怕的惩罚了。他们这样的想法不无道理。

----法国作家加缪

 There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
Bill Cosby

    只要干得好，人所从事的任何劳动都是崇高的。

----比尔.考斯比（1937- ），美国黑人演员、音乐家、作家、社会活动家