Labor Quotes
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Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.
Eric Foner
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It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
Terence McKenna
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You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we just do it because we like it. Maybe someone's gonna move, or not want to go on a tour for some reason - that could happen, I guess.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.
Carroll Quigley
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The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.
Paul Keating
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
Thomas Carlyle