Laborers Quotes

• If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

  Mark Hanna

  Trust, Foundation, Stones

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• Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Heart, Second Chance

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• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Heart, Artist

  "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.

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• A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.

  John Bates Clark

  Sight, Raw Materials, Currents

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• He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

  Francis of Assisi

  Heart, Artist, Hands

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• This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, War, Military

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Order, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2014). “The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Presidential, Want, Strikes

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.176, Fordham Univ Press

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• Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Enthusiasm, Privilege, Faithfulness

  Lucy Larcom (1875). “An Idyl of Work”, p.9

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• Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Economic Inequality, Political

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.236, Library of Alexandria

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Faith, Work, Labor Day

  "The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci".

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• When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

  Leland Stanford

  Country, Giving, Return

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

  Samuel Gompers

  Struggle, Impossible, Common

  Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.33, University of Illinois Press

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• The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Health, Length Of Life

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

  William Graham Sumner

  Labor, Capitalist, Dues

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

  Julien Benda

  Artist, Men, Philosopher

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.182, Transaction Publishers

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• I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

  Chris Ware

  Respect, Nice, Independent

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

  Denis Kearney

  Men, Two, Hiking

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• I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

  Marguerite Duras

  Passionate, Literature, Journalism

  "Practicalities (Walesa's Wife)". Book by Marguerite Duras, 1990.

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• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  John Ruskin

  Giving Up, Men, Titles

  1880 Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.

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• I class myself as a manual laborer.

  Theodore White

  Class, Manuals

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