Labor Quotes - Page 36

• The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

  James Mackintosh

  Wealth, Productive

  Sir James Mackintosh (1848). “The miscellaneous works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.429

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• The people's instincts are still right. You see them come to the rescue of someone-a child who falls down a well-hundreds of people rush to help, and labor and equipment are volunteered without any thought of who's going to pay for it. This is a basic feeling in Americans. They don't stand back in such a circumstance and ask what the government's going to do about it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Fall, Government

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• In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.

  Leland Stanford

  Organization, Distribution Of Wealth, Mercy

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• Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, Greatness, Government

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• We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Reason, Piety, Pious

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• [In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Real, Land, Fire

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• Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

  W. H. Auden

  Science, Skills, Degrees

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• Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.

  W. H. Auden

  Jobs, Work, Men

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• Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Erring, Purgatory, Labour

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• Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants and do so in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.

  Walter E. Williams

  Order, Land, Entrepreneur

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.351, Hoover Institution Press

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• Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Strong, Play, Economic Inequality

  "The Curse of Bigness: Miscellaneous Papers of Louis D. Brandeis". Book by Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Clarence Martin Lewis, 1965.

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• The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

  Aberjhani

  Dancing, Halos, Vortex

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.83, Lulu.com

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• Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

  Aberjhani

  Civilization, Humanity, Foundation

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• There's a wonderfully cooperative relationship between management and labor right now. Much like the historic partnership between oranges and a juicer.

  Stephen Colbert

  Orange, Management, Historic

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• The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Want, Sides

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• I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.

  Chuck Close

  Hate, Technology, Use

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• I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

  William Hogarth

  Genius, Diligence, Knows

  "The Works of William Hogarth: Including the Analysis of Beauty and Five Days' Peregrination".

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• The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be taken for granted. The real question concerns the proper means of achieving it. And in trying to answer this we must never lose sight of a few elementary truisms. We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Running, Real, Taken

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.146, Crown Business

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• Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Christian, Loyalty, Children

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• The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

  Lawrence Block

  Writing, Stories, World

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• By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Illustration, Should Have

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.162, Fordham Univ Press

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• The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Winning, Division Of Labor, Losing

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.1, NYU Press

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• The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.

  Frank Chodorov

  People, Political, Scientist

  Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.95, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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.

  Joseph Murphy

  Men, Sweat, Trying

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.74, GENERAL PRESS

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• When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it - meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride, etc.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Pride, Reality

  "What makes us feel good about our work?". TEDxRiodelaPlata Talk, www.ted.com. October 2012.

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