Top 1200 Manual Labor Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.

We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

In some countries, as many as 91 percent of women have no one at their side to assist them during labor and delivery.

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.

What Labor has said very clearly is that there should be up to life sentences for people who traffic in guns.

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

Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

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

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

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

The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of Christ.

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

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

... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.

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

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

I work a lot on skill demands and changes in labor markets having to do with technology and with trade as well.

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

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

The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be close to them and know what they think, because it is often they who are free enough to see with the greatest clarity the needs, beauty and pain of the community.

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

We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for it.

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

There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

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

The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.

To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

The high-tech industry needs the immigration of highly qualified labor, from India, from China, from everywhere.

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.