Laborers Quotes
102 quotes by 88 authors
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A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series.…
— John Bates Clark
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Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be…
— James G. Blaine
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
— Samuel Gompers
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies…
— Denis Diderot
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to…
— Henry George
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him…
— George Orwell
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I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.
— Rabia Basri
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As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.
— Karl Marx
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The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand,…
— R. H. Tawney
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The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to…
— Anthony of Padua
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In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other…
— William Shakespeare
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Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The Only Things That Were Available To Me Were Either Be A LaborerĂ‚ Or Be A Drug Dealer. So I Became An Armed Robber. It…
— Danny Trejo
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I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in…
— Ringo Starr
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The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and…
— Edward Abbey
Who Wrote These Laborers Quotes
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