Articles Quote by Samuel Gompers Download Open image “The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.” — Samuel Gompers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Articles Business Commerce Commodity Human beings Humans Labor
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a… — Samuel Copy Share Image
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic human health.… — Natalia Rose Copy Share Image
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision,… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance… — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image