Labor Quotes · Page 33

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

— Malcolm Turnbull

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

— James Weldon Johnson

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

— Francis Quarles

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

— Orville Dewey

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not…

— John James Audubon

Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.

— Laura Furman

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the…

— Ronald Reagan

If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest…

— Orestes Brownson

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;…

— Bill Mollison

You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that…

— Donald Trump

If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly…

— Louis O. Kelso

Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned,…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is…

— Hannah Arendt

“In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as…

— W.H. Auden

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing…

— Frederic Bastiat

There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and…

— Dan Smoot

I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests… I think the employer who declines to…

— William Howard Taft

Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your…

— Lord Byron

For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the…

— Lewis Hyde

The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

— Helen Keller

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and…

— Ronald Reagan

It is not labor that kills, but the small attritions of daily routine that wear us down.

— Roy Bedichek

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not…

— Henry David Thoreau

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a…

— Angela Davis

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

— Wendell Phillips

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

— Tim Kaine

Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the…

— Laurence J. Peter

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

— Anonymous

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

— Peter Drucker

I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

— Pope Francis

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive…

— Lawrence Block

...When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.

— John Kennedy Toole

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

— Jack Kirby

One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

— Molly Ivins

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.

— Abraham Lincoln