Labor Quotes · Page 28

The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of…

— Rafael Arnaiz Baron

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood…

— Milton Friedman

A lot of people think, particularly the people who have benefited, that they're entitled to the fruits of their abilities, their labor.

— Paul Solman

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

— Thomas Merton

I took prenatal yoga three times a week, including the morning I went into labor. It helped me stay comfortable.

— Alyssa Milano

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

— Nikola Tesla

I like painting, I think it's relaxing. I also like designing; I don't really like the manual labor, to be honest.

— Christina Anstead

By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature,…

— John Milton

“the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development…

— Karl Polanyi

To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates...…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

As mayor, I launched an apprentice program. As mayor and as a labor leader, I've seen them change the lives of women…

— Marty Walsh

Minimum wage law is the 'People's Fed.' Tie minimum wage to money supply. If there is pushback against this idea, then shut…

— Max Keiser

The concept of productivity in America is income divided by labor. So if you're Goldman Sachs and you pay yourself $20 million…

— Michael Hudson

It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to…

— Nick Minchin

All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding…

— Muhammad Yunus

Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand,…

— Thucydides

Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to…

— Cal Thomas

This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists.…

— Manly Hall

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when…

— Samuel Johnson

There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship…

— John Shelton Reed

How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill…

— Og Mandino

And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less…

— Lysander Spooner

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our…

— Masiela Lusha

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

— Eric Hoffer

Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

— Michel Chossudovsky

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler…

— Maria Montessori

Nothing tends to materialize man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labor

— Anonymous

Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

— George Herbert

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his…

— Robert E. Lee

I believe in every employee's right to not join a labor union or pay union dues if they so choose.

— Nancy Mace

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

— Woodrow Wilson

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

— James O. Fraser

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

— Adam Smith

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

— Frederic Bastiat

When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

— John Sweeney

Bureaucrats in D.C. seem to forget that every dollar they spend is the result of somebody else's labor.

— Brian Mast

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

— J. G. Holland