Quotes on Labor

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Author: Saint Augustine

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Author: Allan Bloom

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Author: Luc Clapier

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Author: Bill Cosby

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

Author: Thomas Dekker

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Author: Thomas Edison

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Author: William Faulkner

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

Author: John Florio

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Author: Henry George

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

Author: Samuel Gompers

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Author: Charles Guggenheim

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

Author: Dag Hammarskjold

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

Author: Arthur Hertzberg

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

Author: Paul Hoffman

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Author: Horace

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

Author: Kin Hubbard

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

Author: David Hume

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Author: Robert Ingersoll

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

Author: Ron Jaworski

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Author: Jerome

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

Author: William Kunstler

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Author: Martin Luther

Free trade should not mean free labor.

Author: Stephen Lynch

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Author: Mary Lyon

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Author: Karl Marx

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Author: Karl Marx

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

Author: George Mason

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

Author: Natalie Merchant

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

Author: Amos Oz

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

Author: Annie Peck

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

Author: Michael Richards

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Author: John Ruskin

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

Author: Samuel Smiles

Without labor nothing prospers.

Author: Sophocles

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

Author: Leland Stanford

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

Author: Leland Stanford

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

Author: Benjamin Tucker

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Author: Desmond Tutu

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

Author: Josiah Warren

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

Author: Daniel Webster

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Author: Harold Wilson

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

Author: Brigham Young