266 Quotes on Labor

• Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward.

  Author: Jason Zebehazy

• The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

  Author: Brigham Young

• To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

  Author: William Yeats

• It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

  Author: Francis Wright

• The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

  Author: Harold Wilson

• An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

  Author: James Whistler

• We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

  Author: Robert Welch

• The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

  Author: Daniel Webster

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

  Author: Daniel Webster

• Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

  Author: George Washington

• 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

• The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

  Author: Josiah Warren

• The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

  Author: Chris Ware

• I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.

  Author: Fred Ward

• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.

  Author: Claude Vorilhon

• At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

• 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

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

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

  Author: John Thorn

• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  Author: Evan Thomas

• The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

  Author: William Taft

• Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

  Author: William Sumner

• Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

  Author: William Sumner

• I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

  Author: Lucy Stone

• Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

  Author: Thaddeus Stevens

• No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.

  Author: Leland Stanford

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

  Author: Leland Stanford

• Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

  Author: Leland Stanford

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

  Author: Leland Stanford

• The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

  Author: Albert Speer

• Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

  Author: Albert Speer

• Without labor nothing prospers.

  Author: Sophocles

• In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

  Author: Jimmy Smits

• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  Author: Lamar Smith

• Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

  Author: Adam Smith

• Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

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

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

  Author: Georg Simmel

• For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

  Author: Georg Simmel

• A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

  Author: Hugh Sidey

• There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

  Author: William Sherman

• There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

  Author: Robert Shea

• I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

  Author: Shakira

• We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

  Author: Charles Schwab

• All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

  Author: Hjalmar Schacht

• Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

  Author: Dora Russell

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

  Author: John Ruskin

• I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

  Author: Rita Rudner

• 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

• It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Labor gives birth to ideas.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

  Author: John Rockefeller

• I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

  Author: Marty Robbins

• The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

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

  Author: Michael Richards

• We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

  Author: Cecil Rhodes

• The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

  Author: Joshua Reynolds

• 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.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

  Author: Ishmael Reed

• Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

  Author: Francis Quarles

• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

  Author: Wendell Phillips

• Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

  Author: William Petty

• 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

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

  Author: Amos Oz

• I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.

  Author: Charles Osgood

• The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

  Author: George Orwell

• This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

  Author: Frederick Olmsted

• The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

  Author: David Obey

• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  Author: Barack Obama

• It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

  Author: Joyce Oates

• My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

  Author: Holly Near

• But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

  Author: Marc Morial

• The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

  Author: Michael Moore

• We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

  Author: Ludwig Mises

• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.

  Author: Charles Merrill

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

  Author: Natalie Merchant

• He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

  Author: Menander

• The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

  Author: Menander

• Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

  Author: John McGinley

• Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man.

  Author: Mary McCarthy

• The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

  Author: George Mason

• 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 more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  Author: Karl Marx

• The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

  Author: Karl Marx

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

  Author: Karl Marx

• A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

  Author: Jacques Maritain

• Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

  Author: James Madison

• Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.

  Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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

  Author: Mary Lyon

• Free trade should not mean free labor.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

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

  Author: Martin Luther

• I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

  Author: Martin Luther

• True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• All wealth is the product of labor.

  Author: John Locke

• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

  Author: John Lewis

• Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

  Author: John Lewis

• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  Author: John Lewis

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

  Author: Gyorgy Legeti

• Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

  Author: Ferdinand Lassalle

• If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

  Author: Doug Larson

• Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

  Author: Christian Lange

• The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

  Author: Christian Lange

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

  Author: Charles Kuralt

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

  Author: William Kunstler

• People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

  Author: Lenny Kravitz

• But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

  Author: Jonathan Kozol

• All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

  Author: Edward Kennedy

• But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

  Author: Thomas Kempis

• We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

  Author: Denis Kearney

• Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

  Author: Rosabeth Kanter

• Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

  Author: Sheila Kamerman

• Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

  Author: Donald Judd

• Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

  Author: Joseph Joubert

• I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

  Author: Mother Jones

• Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

  Author: Mary Jones

• Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.

  Author: Mary Jones

• The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

  Author: Mary Jones

• The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

  Author: Franklin Jones

• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• Exercise is labor without weariness.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

  Author: James Johnson

• My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'

  Author: Beverly Johnson

• 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

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

  Author: Peter Jennings

• A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

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

  Author: Ron Jaworski

• America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

  Author: Ernest Istook

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

  Author: Robert Ingersoll

• Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

  Author: Bill Hybels

• A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  Author: Ian Hunter

• Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

  Author: David Hume

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  Author: Victor Hugo

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

  Author: Kin Hubbard

• Labor diligently to increase your property.

  Author: Horace

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

  Author: Paul Hoffman

• If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

  Author: Paul Hoffman

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

  Author: Sidney Hillman

• But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

  Author: Rudolf Hiferding

• Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.

  Author: Patricia Hewitt

• 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

• But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at state and local levels. That's where the real opportunities are today.

  Author: Alexis Herman

• If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

  Author: Alexis Herman

• We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.

  Author: Alexis Herman

• My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them.

  Author: Alexis Herman

• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Author: Arthur Helps

• 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.

  Author: Jesse Helms

• When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

  Author: J. Hayworth

• Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

  Author: B. Hayden

• In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

  Author: Albert Hart

• No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

  Author: Benjamin Harrison

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

  Author: Dag Hammarskjold

• It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

  Author: Alexander Hamilton

• Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.

  Author: Luis Gutierrez

• I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange.

  Author: Charles Guggenheim

• 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

• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  Author: Ulysses Grant

• Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

  Author: Remy Gourmont

• Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

  Author: Samuel Gompers

• 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

• If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

  Author: Whoopi Goldberg

• What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

  Author: Arnold Glasow

• Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

  Author: Andre Gide

• Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

  Author: W. George

• The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

  Author: Phyllis George

• Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

  Author: Henry George

• Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

  Author: Henry George

• 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.

  Author: John Galbraith

• The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

  Author: Toshihiko Fukui

• Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

  Author: David Frost

• Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

  Author: Gene Fowler

• The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

  Author: John Flynn

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

  Author: John Florio

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

  Author: William Faulkner

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

  Author: Thomas Edison

• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

  Author: Annie Dillard

• Honest labor bears a lovely face.

  Author: Thomas Dekker

• Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

  Author: Angela Davis

• Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

  Author: Angela Davis

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

  Author: Bill Cosby

• Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

  Author: Anna Cooper

• Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

  Author: Jennifer Connelly

• Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

  Author: Confucius

• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  Author: Barry Commoner

• Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

  Author: Richard Cobden

• The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

  Author: William Cobbett

• A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

  Author: Grover Cleveland

• The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.

  Author: John Clark

• The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

  Author: Luc Clapier

• 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.

  Author: Marcus Cicero

• I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

  Author: Lord Chesterfield

• Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

  Author: Linda Chavez

• The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

  Author: Linda Chavez

• Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

  Author: Mary Chase

• 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.

  Author: Ralph Chaplin

• Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

  Author: William Channing

• It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

  Author: Barbara Castle

• Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

  Author: Albert Camus

• The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.

  Author: Jane Byrne

• God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

  Author: Samuel Butler

• Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

  Author: Robert Burns

• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

  Author: Robert Browning

• We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

  Author: Thomas Browne

• We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

  Author: Arthur Brooks

• For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.

  Author: Andre Braugher

• Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

  Author: Hjalmar Branting

• Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

  Author: Billy Bragg

• Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

  Author: Ella Bloor

• 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

• Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.

  Author: John Bigelow

• New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

  Author: Carol Bellamy

• We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

  Author: Carol Bellamy

• Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

  Author: Anne Baxter

• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  Author: Haley Barbour

• Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

  Author: James Baldwin

• A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

  Author: Liberty Bailey

• 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

• Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

  Author: Brooks Atkinson

• The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

  Author: Sholem Asch

• The end of labor is to gain leisure.

  Author: Aristotle

• For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

  Author: Katharine Anthony

• Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

  Author: Kofi Annan

• Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

  Author: Isabel Allende

• In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

  Author: Felix Adler

• Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

  Author: Grace Abbott

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