The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money. — Joey Lauren Adams Copy Share Image
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps. — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that.… — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The myth of the first world is that development is wealth and technology progress. It is all rubbish. It means that you… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
