Laborers Quotes

102 quotes by 88 authors

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
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
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. — Samuel Gompers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages. — Rabia Basri
As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse. — Karl Marx
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
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
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
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
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
The Only Things That Were Available To Me Were Either Be A LaborerÂ Or Be A Drug Dealer. So I Became An Armed Robber. It… — Danny Trejo
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
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

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