Top 1200 Labor Movement Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

Whether we're talking about the New Deal or the Great Society: they didn't come about because they wanted to buy people off with "hush money." They were the outcomes of struggles. They were the outcomes, in the 1930s, of a viable socialist-communist movement. They were the outcomes of a viable workers' movement. FDR didn't give in because he wanted to shut people up, he gave in because he was under pressure. He had no choice.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

I'm pretty sure I don't want a camera in my face when I am in labor.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

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

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is a constant blend into your self of what your own Being is. The movement of love, enjoying being at work in the self. The movement of love, enjoying making a change in your self. The enjoyment of application.

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

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

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

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

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

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

If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

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

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

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

The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

I think this ['March']is essential reading to understand the Black Lives Matter movement. I think it's also essential reading for the Black Lives Matter movement, so that they understand the political context that they're engaging in.

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

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

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

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.

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

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

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

The most popular labor saving device is still money.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Oswald Mosley`s movement, it was a big movement. It was obviously anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, it was populist. Mosley wanted to replace the parliamentary system of government in Britain with a government that was based on business interests, that was based on the idea that business interests were the real interests of that country and business interests. and reorganizing the government to serve business interests, that would be a way to get stuff done faster and more efficiently.

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

On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand, we have the day-to-day struggle; on the other, the social revolution. It follows that this movement can best advance by tacking betwixt and between the two dangers by which it is constantly being threatened. One is the loss of its mass character; the other, the abandonment of its goal. One is the danger of sinking back to the condition of a sect; the other, the danger of becoming a movement of bourgeois social reform.

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.

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

American labor may now look to the future with confidence.

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

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

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

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

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

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

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

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

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