Labor Quotes · Page 36

I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate…

— Howard Warren Buffett

Donald Trump is saying the right thing. We're bringing in so much labor, it's pulling down working people.

— Jeff Sessions

Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him,…

— Peter Costello

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

— Squidward Tentacles

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

— Thomas a Kempis

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

— Leland Stanford

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

— Ariel Sharon

To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is…

— Brigham Young

Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits…

— David J. Lieberman

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding…

— Mark Krikorian

Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job…

— Johnny Marr

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own…

— Thomas Jefferson

My government has been playing catch-ups building the schools, hospitals, roads and transport links our state needs to deal with our growing…

— Gladys Berejiklian

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor…

— William C. Bryant

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification…

— Steve Pavlina

“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged…

— Upton Sinclair

We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed…

— Thomas Jefferson

One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who…

— Judith Butler

For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs…

— Gregory of Nyssa

The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third…

— Marsilio Ficino

Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my…

— Charles W. Nibley

I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from…

— Anonymous

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

— Agnes Repplier

“...to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, [and] criticise after dinner...”

— Karl Marx

. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

— Harold S. Kushner

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

— Henry David Thoreau

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

— C. Wright Mills

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

— Benjamin Franklin

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

— Anonymous

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

— Richard Flanagan

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

— Mariano Rajoy

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source…

— Eli Siegel

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new…

— Aberjhani

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide…

— Thomas Carlyle