Labor Quotes

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded).

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

Labor in loneliness is irksome.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of #‎ collaboration .

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

I'm always suffering from a labor shortage.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

When we say "people worry" about inflation, it's mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the '50s, '60s and '70s.

Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.

It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor.

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.