Labor Quotes

I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse.

Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

He who loves his work never labors.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.