Labor Quotes - page 5

We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science-if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright. (Stephen Jay Gould)
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property of B. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification. View quote
Emil Cioran
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
The story of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land... America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life ... we ought to be proud of it! View quote
Hubert Humphrey
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor. View quote
William Cobbett
It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. (Barry Commoner)
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. View quote
Robert Browning
The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out. View quote
Paul Keating
The fact is, Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together. View quote
Paul Keating
Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it. View quote
Joanna Russ
So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims. View quote
Samuel Gompers
The labor movement is a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves... View quote
Samuel Gompers
As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols. View quote
C. Wright Mills
To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective. View quote
C. Wright Mills
The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor. The limiting of output by the workman, and the limiting by the employer of the amount a workman is allowed to earn, are both factors which militate against that harmonious co-operation of employer and employee which is essential to their highest common good. View quote
Henry Gantt
In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world. (Jimmy Hoffa)
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. View quote
Arthur Helps
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt