“Unless we are to believe naively that leisure and luxury crystallize out of thin air, we must recognize and acknowledge that the comforts of globalization are reaped from the labor and toil of others.”

“The maid was given the toil of a slave and unpleasant tasks to perform, so that the parents could gauge her usefulness in these tasks.”

“What strikes one most in his work is the disinterestedness of the toiler.”

“So too will Bertie Ahern, Ireland's premier and another toiler in the peace-process vineyard, for he faces a difficult general election.”

“Once upon a time, a popular benchmark was that the boss should be paid no more than about 20-30 thees the level of a lowly toiler.”

“Can we perceive a person's works as the effects of miracles or as the results of blessings or as the effects of their own mortal toilings?”

“It is this union movement of city and rural toilers that has the power to end capitalism.”

“These tireless toilers of the soil include such creatures as the earthworms, woodlice and millipedes.”

“The stately buildings, erstwhile the abode of the honoured and wealthy of the city, are now tenanted by humble toilers, or turned into places of business.”

“Sooner or later, sociopaths tend to get caught in their manipulative toils.”

“I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness.”