Labor Quotes · Page 77

If we get a tax system that is competitive, we will hire people. When you hire people, you have to compete for…

— Gary Cohn

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.

— Walter Reuther

The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

— John D. Rockefeller

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be…

— Robert E. Lee

I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a…

— Kiki Smith

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

— John Ruskin

The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer…

— Noam Chomsky

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it…

— Samuel Johnson

The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put…

— Henry David Thoreau

It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime…

— Clarence Darrow

Luck whines; labor whistles.

— Samuel Smiles

There's so many people that are interested in film and especially in terms of the technology side of film, that suddenly the…

— Rick McCallum

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about…

— Andy Stern

When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But…

— Ronald Reagan

I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for…

— Jalen Rose

China-led globalization in some ways worries me because they are not concerned about human rights, labor rights. They probably aren't even really…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the…

— Eliza R. Snow

It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of # collaboration .

— Martin Scorsese

Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation,…

— Herbert Schiller

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

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with…

— Anonymous

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

— Daniel Webster