Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind… — Jay Gould
Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to… — Mother Jones
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their… — Mother Jones
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile… — Walter Duranty
Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words,… — Fred Saberhagen
Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to… — Walter E. Williams
As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure… — Leon Trotsky
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant… — Aberjhani
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity:… — Aberjhani
The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it. — Iyanla Vanzant
I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving… — Chuck Close
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking… — Bill Mollison
I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence. — William Hogarth
The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be… — Henry Hazlitt
Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who… — Jonah Goldberg
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... — Lawrence Block
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a… — Abraham Lincoln
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. — Eduardo Galeano
The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under… — Frank Chodorov
Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You… — Joseph Murphy
When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add… — Dan Ariely
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation. — Orville Dewey
What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind? — Orville Dewey
What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century… — Thomas Piketty
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements… — Aruna Roy

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