Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of… — Steven Pressfield
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor. — Stephen S. Roach
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs. — Dana Rohrabacher
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. — Lamar S. Smith
So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of… — Paul Krugman
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. — Nicholas D. Kristof
And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of… — Grover Cleveland
I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other… — John C. Calhoun
It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one… — John C. Calhoun
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor. — Nick Cave
Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I… — C. Everett Koop
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. — William Jennings Bryan
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism. — Vincent Van Gogh
If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do… — Ariel Durant
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to… — Thaddeus Stevens
It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest… — Benjamin Tucker
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas… — Carson McCullers
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think… — Anna Howard Shaw
The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand… — Isaac Barrow
Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no… — Owen D. Young
Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw. — Josh Billings
By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the… — Henry Adams
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series… — Horace Mann

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