Labor Quotes - Page 25

• As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Hands, Intelligence

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1801). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.”, p.317

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• The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

  Samuel Richardson

  Sports, Children, Play

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• I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and is never heard on stage. . . . I'm better at writing than I am at organizing [political action]. SLAUGHTER CITY is my small contribution. If it gives people a voice it is worth something. So often we forget what we are no longer hearing.

  Naomi Wallace

  Writing, Vocabulary, Cities

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• [W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.

  Vincent de Paul

  World, Glitter, Sparkle

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• You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Real, War

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• Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Ambition, Errors

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• We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Cutting, Lessons

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.379, Spectra

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• I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

  Rex Stout

  Men, Oddities, Technique

  Rex Stout (2013). “Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men”, p.63, Bantam

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• The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they’re not particularly fattening. So don’t share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fruit, Share, Fattening

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• Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Example, Networking

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• Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

  Georg Simmel

  Cities, Division Of Labor, Firsts

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Small Numbers, Hands

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• Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Work, Progress, Comfort

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• Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies in humble corners of the world, where growers pour their intention, their character and their love of labor into each wine.

  Greg Brown

  Lying, Wine, Humble

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• In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.

  Murray Bookchin

  Art, Medicine, Goal

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jobs, Labor Force, Salary

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• But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our impieties, having recovered us who were not half dead merely, but were already in tombs and sepulchers, and altogether foul and offensive, saves us, both anciently and now, by his beneficent zeal, beyond the expectation of any one, even of ourselves, and imparts liberally of the Father's benefits-he who is the giver of life and light, our great Physician and King and Lord, the Christ of God.

  Eusebius

  Kings, Father, Taken

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• 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.

  Kevin Rudd

  Australia, Tears, Narrative

  Address to the Chifley Research Centre Dinner Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the World's First Majority Labor Government Old Parliament House Canberra, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 06, 2010.

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• The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Class, Organization

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

  Andy Stern

  Roles, Movement, Social

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• He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

  Saint Augustine

  Doe, Littles, Way

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• It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Technology, Soul, Rebel

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Land, Support, Arrogance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2253, Library of Alexandria

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• Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Division Of Labor, Peaceful, Society

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Rights, Government, Years

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