We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes… — Clare of Assisi Copy Share Image
Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
My political tradition is on the left, but I think that more modern leftists, they sometimes get stuck with this vision of… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when… — William James Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
For years, Frank Giovinco, as a member of the Genovese Crime Family, instilled fear in victims and perpetrated kickback schemes to tighten… — Audrey Strauss Copy Share Image
Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent,… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
As a matter of comparative, the U.S. citizens - the Puerto Ricans that live in the United States - have much better… — Ricardo Rossello Copy Share Image
If you read the 13th Amendment, it doesn't talk about narratives of racial difference. It doesn't talk about ideologies of white supremacy.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The woman in labor must have NO STRESS placed upon her. She must be free to move about, walk, rock, go to… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some… — Steve Israel Copy Share Image
Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
