Labor Quotes

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Donald Trump is saying the right thing. We're bringing in so much labor, it's pulling down working people.

Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

If Donald Trump builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he'll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.

Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

I made a little money. And like the Bible says, I was enjoying the fruits of my labor. This is my comeback. This is me doing what I love to do.

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

Part of the NAFTA legislation required studies of labor practices, and there was quite a good study that came out by a labor historian on the use of NAFTA to undermine and destroy unions.

Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.

I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.