Labor Quotes

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people.

I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions but from working people.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000.

You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that was ever true, it becomes less so all the time.

I think [Alex Acosta]will be a tremendous secretary of labor.

Even if we cannot endure much labor because we are weak let us be set on humbling ourselves.

The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.

Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill

When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.

There is nothing more dangerous than idleness...In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

The older we get and the longer we labor in the Church the more there is that we can do. There is no need for any person in this Church to have an empty hand or an empty heart.

I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.