Labor Quotes
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.
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The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.
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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.
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I am not a labor hater.
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It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.
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Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.
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Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
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It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.
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When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.
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In our business, managing your labor costs is paramount.
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One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.
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Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.
