Top 1200 Labor Laws Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

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

Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

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

After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws of nature, from which natural selection can unfold, to being perhaps just the chooser of the laws. By the time God's role has been so diminished, he becomes a bit like a constitutional monarch, presiding ceremonially but not having any more work to do. That's a place for God if it makes people comfortable to keep God as the presider over the universe. I suppose that is satisfying for many.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

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

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

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

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.

If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art.

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

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

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

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...

I think [Alex Acosta]will be a tremendous secretary of labor.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

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

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

Developing a following and maintaining that is so much free labor - just for the love of it.

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

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

We as a society have created rules and laws and systems that not only are transphobic and homophobic but they’re also racist and they’re sexist. Because we’re all brought up in the middle of that, whether we want to admit it or not, we’re all on some level racist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic. It makes it difficult for other people when we turn a blind eye to it. We don’t agree with the laws that are going, but we don’t vote against them. We don’t like what our leaders are doing, but we don’t pick up the phone and call them. We don’t stand up and protest.

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

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

Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.

The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.

The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

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

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

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