Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of… — John Mott Copy Share Image
I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
It has passed over mountain ranges and The waters of the seven seas. It has shown upon laborers in the fields, Into… — Clinton Lee Scott Copy Share Image
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher… — Julien Gracq Copy Share Image
Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left… — Yishan Wong Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests… I think the employer who declines to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be… — Prosper of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image