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Labor Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.
- We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of…
- People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own…
- The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own…
- War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society…
- Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of…
- The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a…
- Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived…
- Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
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