Top 1200 Labor Movement Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

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

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

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

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

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

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

School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

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

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

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

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

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

Look at how successful the domestic workers movement has been. But it's different when it's your husband hiring someone. Domestic workers quite literally say, "You need to get your house in order. You can't join this movement unless you look at yourself." And they're very forgiving, amnesty for everyone. "You haven't been paying into your nanny's unemployment insurance? That's cool, we'll teach you how to get right and go from there." What would the parallel be around sex workers? I don't know if there can be one.

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

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

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

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

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

Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I had, like, four Sigur Ros records on my playlist when I was in labor.

I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.

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

My own view - and I'm very open to hearing other perspectives - is that this movement-building needs to begin at home, in local communities. It isn't about trying to launch a brand new national party overnight. It's about people in communities coming together across lines of difference, bringing with them their movements, their families, and coming together and saying, "How can we together build a movement of movements here at home? What would that look like? What do we want to do right here in our communities?"

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

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

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

Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much.

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

Human labor cannot compete with fixed capital - that's just a fact.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.

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

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

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

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

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.

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

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

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