Top 1200 Labor Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs.
All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor.
Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic
to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to
the right.
Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth
New York is celebrated as a leader in our nation's quest for progress because ours is a city built by the labor of a thousand different shades and accents.
I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.
Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.
We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody.
I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.
I will not ascribe to the 'Blame America' club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.
The impact of technology on labor has become clearer and clearer by the day.
The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.
The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.
Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.
Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.
There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
I don't like hospitals, and the idea of being in labor somewhere I don't like at all - wasn't how I wanted to bring my kids into the world.
Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
In a free market, businesses compete for customers by keeping prices down and for labor by keeping wages up.
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
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.
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
The modern labor movement that began around the mid-19th century has given us many of the basic working rights that we now take for granted.
According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
