Labor Quotes · Page 8

Small hands can handle a pen better. Lend your support to abolish child labor!

— Kishore Bansal

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Human labor cannot compete with fixed capital - that's just a fact.

— Ash Sarkar

The people united will never be defeated.

— Cesar Chavez

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

— Jane Fonda

The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

— Melinda Gates

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

— Abraham Lincoln

If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way…

— Michael Hudson

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

— Saadi

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for…

— Henry David Thoreau

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

— Samuel Johnson

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

— Barbara Johnson

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

— Tony Robbins

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

— Ali Babacan

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

— Henry Ford

The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a…

— Paul Clark

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read…

— Anonymous

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living…

— Andrew Mellon

That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action;…

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive…

— Gloria Steinem

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in…

— John Ruskin

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers…

— Toshihiko Fukui

America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black…

— Clint Smith

The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want…

— Wendell Berry

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life.…

— Sean O'Casey

How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him…

— William Booth

In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of…

— Shoshana Zuboff

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly…

— Anna Howard Shaw

“If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is…

— Sigmund Freud

You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more.…

— Stephen Malkmus

To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

— Horace

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

— Charles M. Schwab

I'm pretty sure I don't want a camera in my face when I am in labor.

— Colleen Ballinger

I'm always suffering from a labor shortage.

— Masamune Shirow

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

— Brooks Atkinson

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

— Richard Steele

The impact of technology on labor has become clearer and clearer by the day.

— Moshe Vardi

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

— Steven Pressfield