Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a… — Mort Kondracke
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to maintain… — Christian Nestell Bovee
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness. — Thales
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided… — Charles Caleb Colton
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor… — Karl Marx
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist.… — Karl Marx
Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but… — Karl Marx
A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the… — Karl Marx
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power… — Karl Marx
When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer… — Martin O'Malley
Big Business wants cheap labor costs. — Rick Santorum
Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy. — Roseanne Barr
Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that… — Al Franken
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal… — Elton Gallegly
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be… — Henry Louis Gates
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and… — Henry George
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. — Andre Gide
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. — Andre Gide
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. — Samuel Gompers

Who Wrote These Labor Quotes

1,075 authors contributed a total of 1,710 Labor Quotes, led by these top contributors: