Quotes About Labor

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

Intuition, like a flash of lightning, lasts only for a second. It generally comes when one is tormented by a difficult decipherment and when one reviews in his mind the fruitless experiments already tried. Suddenly the light breaks through and one finds after a few minutes what previous days of labor were unable to reveal.

People were expensive; the way to display, or to enjoy, great wealth was to build an environment that could only have been wrought, and could only be sustained from one hour to the next, by unceasing human effort.

Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work.

People were expensive; the way to display, or to enjoy, great wealth was to build an enviornment that could only have been wrought, and could only be sustained from one hour to the next, by unceasing human effort.

Then he nodded at a work party of Hispanic men busy heaving shattered drywall and rolls of nasty old carpet into huge rolling bins for disposal. "And those guys are from the sidewalk in front of Home Depot. If my higher-ups knew . . ." He shook his head.

Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work. By schoolchildren doing their lessons, improving their minds.

You mean, business is slowing down?" She nodded. "Lots of my friends are out of a job now. People aren't working like they used to, and they don't want secretaries

Between a half and two-thirds of all Europeans who migrated to North America between 1650 and 1780 did so under contracts of indentured servitude;

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Las tasas de desempleo en la mayoría de los países europeos son también marcadamente más altas que las de Estados Unidos, más del 10 por ciento en Bélgica y España, más de dos veces la tasa de Estados Unidos.Y por

Do you see these hands? Jo said, holding them up. These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape a new economy and a new democracy that don't force them to choose between making a living and being a part of a healthy democracy.

I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it.

Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.

But for labor groups, there is no debate: Nafta hurt American jobs and household earnings.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

Debs came to the conclusion that no strike or labor movement could ultimately be successful as long as the government was controlled by the capitalist class. Any advances made by an organized working class would later be reversed by the capitalists when they regained absolute power, often by temporarily mollifying workers with reforms. Working men and women had to achieve political power, a goal of Britain's Labour Party at the time, or they would forever be at the mercy of the bosses.

By the 1920s, a once powerful and radical labor movement in the United States had been broken. Although it was revived with the breakdown of capitalism in the 1930s, it would be crushed again by World War II and the anticommunist hysteria that followed.

We had union problems in Silicon Valley," Sporck noted. "We never had any union problems in the Orient.

one of the great failures of human civilization has been its refusal to pay proper attention, or a proper wage, to those who perform the hard but essential primary task of growing our food.

Judges was named after one of the books of the Bible, as was Sammy—Samuel—as Sammy's mother found great comfort in her faith during labor, when she swore to God that if Sammy's dad ever got that thing near her again she would murder him in his sleep.