Labor Quotes
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All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.
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Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.
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Labor is the law of happiness.
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Limp Bizkit is my main priority, but my side project, Black Light Burns, is still a labor of love. We have a record written, so we'll see when that comes out. When we tour, we go out in a van and trailer with me driving.
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It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.
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One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.
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Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.
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Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.
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Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.
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Slaving gave rise to a division of labor.
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In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
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All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
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Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
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I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
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The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood as flexible labor. This has really come to be the dominant form for about the last 20 years.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.
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The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
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To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
