Labor Quotes

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
Joyce Carol Oates

Human, Through, Another

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arthur Helps

Confidence, Self, Once

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
Ted Allen

Mistakes, End, Trying

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
Carol Bellamy

Work, Child, Worst

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

Single, Idea, Infinity

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

Women, Less, Percent

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft

Today, Human, Effort

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

Against, Mistake, Movement

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Happiness, Cannot, Dream

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
Julian Castro

End, Dream, American

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
Samuel Smiles

Knowledge, Property, Possession

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
Samuel Smiles

Everything, Valuable, Price

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

Himself, Condition

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Thomas a Kempis

Knowledge, Live, Rather

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.
Mikhail Bakunin

Strong, Find, Nation

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
Mikhail Bakunin

Life, Science, Human

You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.
Tom Vilsack

Leadership, Food, Powerful

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Women, Men, Society

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Harold Wilson

Industry, Monarchy, Intensive

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
Andrew Weil

Gardening, Justice, Sense

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Gene Fowler

Heart, Wait, Learn

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
Barry Commoner

After, Child, Social

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Science, Mean, Different

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

Death, Against, Cure

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
Peter Jennings

Ahead, Front, November

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
Angela Davis

Leadership, Today, True

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.
Robert Shea

Class, Conflict, Permanent

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.
Jaron Lanier

Acceptance, Social, Exist

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Power, Brain, United

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Henry George

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