Labor Quotes

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

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.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. I've given every maid I've ever portrayed soul and heart.

It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor.

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

Jesus, I live for Thee, I labor for Thee, I desire only Thee. Thou in me and I in Thee; Thou with me and I with Thee; Thou all mine and I all Thine.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.

Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.