Labor Quotes

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

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.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage, especially in construction. We believe that the Romanian market will remain an incentive, so that migration will not be an issue.

This is a business of love and labor.

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

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.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

The Labor party is in my blood.

Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them.

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

It was a labor of love and they did really well.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

Free trade should not mean free labor.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.