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Labor Quotes by Leland Stanford
- Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined…
- The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
- From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and…
- The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.
- The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation…
- When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor…
- I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.
- Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
- The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of…
- Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.
- Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything…
- The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the…
- In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily…
- It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to…
- The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive…
More Labor Quotes
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- 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
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the… — Warren Beatty
- No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm
- We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector,… — Carol Bellamy
- Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for… — Grace Abbott
- I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to… — Lewis Black
- 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