Labor Quotes

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they’re not particularly fattening. So don’t share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.

You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donating your time and labor to the project. Do-it-yourself projects will always help you save.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

The high-tech industry needs the immigration of highly qualified labor, from India, from China, from everywhere.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.

The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very violent labor history, much worse than in Europe.

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your ingredients lined up for you.

A lot of people think, particularly the people who have benefited, that they're entitled to the fruits of their abilities, their labor.

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Labor is God's education.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

Big Business wants cheap labor costs.

There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that doesn't feel like it will turn into a keeper.

Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

The Republicans want illegal immigrants for different reasons. They want 'em for cheap labor. Democrats want 'em for voters. Well, Republicans would like that too.

The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.

Labor: a powerful medicine.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.