John Ruskin Quotes

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

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• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Labor

• The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Industry
  • Labor
  • Monarchy

• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Together
  • Competition
  • Labor

• Exercise is labor without weariness.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Exercise
  • Labor
  • Fitness

• Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.

  

  Walter Duranty
  • Fire
  • Labor
  • Hot

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

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Labor

• I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • You
  • Know
  • Lyrics

• It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Result
  • Horrible
  • Evils

• They worked hard to not give labor a dedicated slot today.

  

  Alan Young
  • Today
  • Labor
  • Worked

• All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Nation
  • Labor

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • I Believe
  • Labor
  • Men's Rights

• We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Live
  • Generation
  • Labor

• We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Say
  • Evils

• Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Long
  • Drunk
  • Chocolate

• Laziness is the mother of all evils.

  

  Sophocles
  • Mother
  • Laziness
  • Evils

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Freedom
  • Individual
  • Inspiring

• Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Computer
  • Labor
  • Profession

• I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Men
  • Labor

• Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Writing
  • Labor
  • Idleness

• In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Long
  • Death

• I'm one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that's another side of me. As long as it doesn't veer away from who I am, I'm down with it.

  

  Adrian Marcel
  • Time
  • Side
  • Turn Up

• Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Books

• Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Labor
  • Evils
  • Rids