Labor Quotes - page 40

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. (John Ruskin)
Conservatives - Republicans - are socialists. True, they may desire to hold you down atop the stone altar and cut your still-beating heart out with an obsidian knife for a set of entirely different reasons - national security, Judaeo-Christian traditions, 'common' decency - than the liberals or 'progressives' or Democrats do, but to you, the important part is cutting your heart out with an obsidian knife, not whatever excuse they may offer for doing it. This is why, no matter which political party happens to be in power, ordinary people - whose thinking and hard work maintain this civilization each and every day - never seem to get an even break with regard to their individual liberty or holding onto the fruits of their labor. It's why the late philosopher Robert LeFevre referred to Democrats and Republicans as 'Socialist Party A' and 'Socialist Party B'. View quote
L. Neil Smith
I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day. View quote
Lewis Black
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. View quote
Helen Clark
The representatives of labor should have a voice in the management of the business. View quote
Charles Coughlin
As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Excellence, in any department, can only be attained by the labor of a lifetime. It is not purchased at a lesser price. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Such is the constitution of man that labor may be styled its own reward nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world. Receive, O Lord, in its totality the Host which creation, drawn by your magnetism, presents to you at the dawn of a new day. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
APPETITE, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. (Ambrose Bierce)
CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, 'Every man his own horse.' View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations. View quote
Jean-François Lyotard
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
The US owes the world. The US "superpower" cannot even finance its own domestic operations, much less its gratuitous wars except via the kindness of foreigners to lend it money that cannot be repaid.The US will never repay the loans. The American economy has been devastated by offshoring, by foreign competition, and by the importation of foreigners on work visas, while it holds to a free trade ideology that benefits corporate fat cats and shareholders at the expense of American labor. The dollar is failing in its role as reserve currency and will soon be abandoned.When the dollar ceases to be the reserve currency, the US will no longer be able to pay its bills by borrowing more from foreigners. View quote
Paul Craig Roberts
The biggest labor problem is tomorrow. View quote
Brigham Young
Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor. View quote
Paul Ryan
The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves. View quote
Isaac Barrow
I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him. (Samuel Rutherford)
All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top. View quote
Roger Ebert
satisfying shareholders and employees; labor and management. View quote
Henri Fayol
When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The essence of our God is STRUGGLE. Pain, joy, and hope unfold and labor within this struggle, world without end. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis