Labor Quotes · Page 27

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

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Alyssa Milano

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

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By…

— Friedrich Engels

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon…

— Mikhail Bakunin

A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto…

— Abraham Lincoln

It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people…

— Van Jones

Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family…

— Sophie Kinsella

From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe…

— Judith Martin

That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have…

— Henry Giroux

What we have seen for a very long time is large corporations shutting down plants in this country, plants that are often…

— Bernie Sanders

... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races…

— Carson McCullers

If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need…

— William Julius Wilson

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;…

— William Cowper Brann

With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a…

— Catherine Austin Fitts

Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought…

— George Washington

The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws.

— Noam Chomsky

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the…

— Chris Bohjalian

A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.

— Dennis Kimbro

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

— Rush Limbaugh

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil…

— Patrick Henry

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

— Antonio Villaraigosa

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

— Malala Yousafzai

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our…

— Thomas S. Monson

“Má leaves me but I'm not alone, and a terrifying thought creeps into my head. Family is now something I have created…

— Thi Bui

There are no shortcuts to success. Work hard and reap the benefits of your labor.

— Anonymous

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

— Michael Hudson

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

— Mark Twain

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

— David Brion Davis

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

— William Ellery Channing

“As the sun shines I will make hay To keep failure at bay For there remaineth a pay For my honest toil…

— Ogwo David Emenike