Labor Quotes · Page 27

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

— Bonnie Raitt

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Labor is a person who born for a purpose but live his whole life just to make someone else life successful.

— Nishan Panwar

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

— Henry David Thoreau

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the…

— Voltaire

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all…

— Learned Hand

Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

— George Grosz

World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them…

— Milton Friedman

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the…

— Marco Rubio

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails,…

— Aberjhani

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns…

— Marc Racicot

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary…

— Blaise Pascal

There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor.…

— Samuel Gompers

The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his…

— John Gardner

These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim:…

— Frederic C. Howe

“Emotional labor is the hard work of making art, producing generosity, and exposing creativity. Working without a map involves both vision and…

— Seth Godin

Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games…

— Tim Harford

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven…

— Jeffrey Kluger

The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By…

— Charles Churchill

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!…

— Holly Near

In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the…

— Jim Rohn

Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

— Edward Abbey

Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

— Lara Giddings

I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say…

— William Robertson Nicoll

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy…

— William Henry Jackson

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's…

— Frederic Bastiat

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

— Doug Larson

Physical labor, manual labor - if you can stay close to those folks, there's always plenty to write about, 'cause their issues…

— Jason Isbell

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and…

— Elizabeth Dole

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

— Dave Beard

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

— Alan Bersin

“How do you keep a business running that you cannot staff due to a labor shortage?”

— Steven Magee

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit…

— Anonymous

I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait…

— Brian Michael Bendis

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

— Grant Morrison