Labor Quotes · Page 26

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

— Melinda Gates

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

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

— Edward Abbey

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

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

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

— Nishan Panwar

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church…

— Anonymous

Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction,…

— Charles Sumner

The reason why I got involved in labor was, quite honestly, my uncle was a business agent for the laborers union and…

— Marty Walsh

The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew…

— David Ben-Gurion

Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the…

— Cameron Sinclair

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in…

— Tom Morello

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to…

— Josiah Warren

You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as…

— Ezra Klein

“Real wages have been declining for twenty years. People are working harder, they have to work longer hours, they have less security…

— Noam Chomsky

But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here because I feel obligated." He brought her hand…

— Tessa Dare

A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what…

— Hippocrates

... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All of us were born at some point, and at some point, unfortunately, most people get sick or need to care for…

— Heather Boushey

I just wanted to begin by mentioning that the nominee for secretary of the department of labor will be Mr. Alex Acosta.…

— Donald Trump

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

— Lara Giddings

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

— Alan Bersin

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

— Dave Beard

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

“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

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

— Grant Morrison

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

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Elizabeth Dole