Labor Quotes - page 2

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. (Grover Cleveland)
Everything in the world is purchased by labor. View quote
David Hume
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems. View quote
Desmond Tutu
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. View quote
André Gide
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. View quote
Victor Hugo
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born. View quote
Horace
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. View quote
Karl Marx
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict. View quote
Robert Shea
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. (Doug Larson)
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. View quote
Daniel Webster
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate. View quote
Horace Mann
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves. View quote
James Madison
Even in the meanest sorts of Labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. View quote
Michael Moore
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities. (Robert Nozick)
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. View quote
Thomas Merton
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. View quote
Bernard Mandeville