The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art. — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined… — Ron Kurtz Copy Share Image
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You can now eat bananas from Chile; you couldn't do it before you had air shipping. Now, communication technology enables the shipping… — Moshe Vardi Copy Share Image
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support… — David Wilmot Copy Share Image