We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without… — B. R. Hayden Copy Share Image
Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to have all the answers on raising children (and outside of taking care of my own that I was… — Cynthia Bailey Copy Share Image
“If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The truth is I was Labor's last immigration minister and you have a right to hear directly from me about what that… — Tony Burke Copy Share Image
Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major… — Samuel Roth Copy Share Image
You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden… — August Spies Copy Share Image
Why dont you try to do without him, why dont you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people. — John Wells Copy Share Image
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever… — H. M. Tomlinson Copy Share Image
'The Player,' I loved so much because it was such a labor of love on all levels, and it was such an… — Cynthia Stevenson Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Shout out to whoever invented labor day! Because of you I don't have school and I get to sleep in. Thank you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.” — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life. — Confucius Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image