Laborer Quotes

Laborer Quote

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

Life, Beauty, Truth

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

Life, Health, Society

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

Heart, Brain, Artist

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

Love, Great, Men

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

Another, Whole, Makes

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

Money, Power, Best

I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.
Ellen Barkin

Work, Hope, Mother

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

Great, Society, Around

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, Time, Between

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
Rebecca Harding Davis

Truly, Patriotic, Glad

I class myself as a manual laborer.
Theodore White

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
John Bates Clark

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

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
Dan DeCarlo

Father, Made, Working

We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.
Tom Fitton

Forward, Down, Law

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