Laborer Quotes

52 quotes by 44 authors

If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence,… — Sumner Slichter
The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. Â They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is… — G. Edward Griffin
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right… — Andrew Carnegie
And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so… — Prosper of Aquitaine
Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of… — Ulysses S. Grant
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government. — Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun. — Shakira
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from… — William Graham Sumner
A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which… — Ned Sublette
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it,… — Lucy Larcom
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer… — Lucy Larcom
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he… — Gilbert Highet
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. — Rebecca Harding Davis
This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all,… — David Ben-Gurion
I class myself as a manual laborer. — Theodore White
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor… — Leland Stanford
I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like… — Ellen Barkin
A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a… — Joyce Cary

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