Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts… — Eric Hoffer
Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. — Ambrose Bierce
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over… — Mark Twain
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and… — Mark Twain
Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy… — William Penn
It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and… — Mencius
After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected. — Malcolm X
A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply… — Ingrid Newkirk
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of… — John Ruskin
Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined in the mind… — Ron Kurtz
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men… — Hubert H. Humphrey
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. — Robert Breault
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience… — Robert Green Ingersoll
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. — Antonio Porchia
Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or… — Hillary Clinton
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. — Thomas a Kempis
I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my… — Albert Einstein
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed. — Abraham Lincoln
I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in… — Abraham Lincoln
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and… — George Santayana
My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. — Franklin Knight Lane
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that… — Brooks Atkinson

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