Labor Quotes · Page 47

From our perspective, as an antitrust enforcer, we're supposed to protect competition in all markets. That includes labor markets.

— Lina Khan

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

— Aaron Sorkin

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a…

— Thomas Jefferson

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are…

— Max Anders

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

— Lyudmila Alexeyeva

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

— Mary Heaton Vorse

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

— Henry Ford

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

— Samuel Smiles

The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth…

— Ashley Montagu

During my three years as chief economist of the World Bank, labor market issues were looked at through the lens of neoclassical…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I feel like I have a lot more freedom to make these decisions to kind of sit back and enjoy the fruits…

— Cristina Goyanes

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid…

— Louis Farrakhan

I pledge to support the American workforce by wearing only American designers: Calvin Klein between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Donna Karan…

— Paris Hilton

It makes no sense that this country has 11 million workers feeding, building this country, making America what it is, and they…

— Diego Luna

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world,…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I often used to think myself inthe case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the…

— Sarah Fielding

Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone…

— Marc Ian Barasch

“One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline,…

— David Harvey

The women in labor must have NO STRESS placed upon her. She must be free to move about, walk, rock, go to…

— Grantly Dick-Read

When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my…

— Henry David Thoreau

My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really…

— Decca Aitkenhead

Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food,…

— Martha Van Rensselaer

“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of…

— Karl Marx

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it…

— Allan Bloom

“Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.”

— Ashley Ormon

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

— Ambrose Bierce

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

— Charles Kuralt

The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations…

— Dave Obey

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“...we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.”

— Carson McCullers

Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there…

— David Autor

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

— William H. Seward

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

— Chris Hayes

Sadly, most labor attorneys will advise you not to say you're wrong to anyone, because that might lead them to have something…

— Mark Goulston

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

— Clarence Darrow

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

— Louis O. Kelso

I work a lot on skill demands and changes in labor markets having to do with technology and with trade as well.

— David Autor

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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