Labor Quotes

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Time, Great, Between

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Gloria Steinem

Work, Women, Home

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant

Men, Find, Disgrace

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
Simone Weil

Hope, Society, Today

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
Rita Rudner

Good, Children, Friends

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Bill Hybels

Down, Cannot, Heaven

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert

Great, Alone, Genius

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
John L. Lewis

Future, America, Thoughtful

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.
John L. Lewis

Faith, Live, American

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
Desmond Tutu

Here, Africa, Favor

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjold

Yourself, Give, Individual

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Paul Ryan

Free, Ideas, Skills

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster

Forget, Important, Earth

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
Isabel Allende

Marriage, Women, Today

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Grace Abbott

Time, End, Children

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
Jerome K. Jerome

Alone, Together, Universe

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
Doug Larson

End, Weekend, United

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert Burns

Fear, Honest, Dare

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

Honest, American, Honor

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
Adam Smith

Money, Original, Paid

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
Charles Kuralt

Succeed, Used, Needed

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Lord Chesterfield

Great, Care, May

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Marshall McLuhan

Work, Whole, Involved

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume

Everything, Purchased

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
Henry Louis Gates

Best, Patriotism, Black

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
Anna Julia Cooper

Strength, Him, Material

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Samuel Richardson

Work, Sports, Children

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
Alexis Herman

Future, Forward, Child

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
Luc de Clapiers

Fruit, Sweetest, Pleasures

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