Employment Quotes - Page 17

• At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dance, Travel, Play

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.159

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• There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strong, Work, Secret

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.8

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• I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Opportunity, Race, Role Models

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• All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is for traditional families, healthy families and a healthy nation. One does not exclude the other and does not hinder the other. I think this is a balanced approach and is entirely the right approach.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Rights, People

  "Human Rights Watch criticizes Russia, says it fails to protect LGBT people" by Susannah Cullinane, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2014.

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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Song, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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• Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Economy, Inflation, Contrary

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• The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being - every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

  Lucy Stone

  Teacher, Memories, Disappointment

  Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.

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• Historically in every recovery, because the president rightly did inherit a recession. But historically, the lagging indicator always deals with employment.

  Sean Hannity

  Recovery, President, Deals

  "Economic Forecast for 2004". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2003.

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• Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man.

  William Graham Sumner

  Mean, Men, Ideas

  William Graham Sumner (1971). “Sumner today: selected essays of William Graham Sumner, with comments by American leaders”

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• The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

  Bayard Rustin

  Journey, Peaceful, Crow

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Waiting, Pay

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f you fast forward to today and the fact that we're the single largest source of employment for women (broadly speaking, as the reps are independent contractors), we've been an important creator of entrepreneurship for women.

  Andrea Jung

  Women, Independent, Important

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• But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.

  John W. Snow

  Strong, Gdp, Numbers

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• Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Poetic, Live By

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.134

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• The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.

  Deborah Mailman

  Opportunity, Different, Film And Television

  "Interview with Deborah Mailman – Star of The Sapphires". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• The full employment situation reinforces itself.

  Jared Bernstein

  Situation

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• The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which finally passed in the Senate late last year, is a throwback to the 1990s, when ENDA was first introduced; the bill wasn’t updated to the times we live in. It exempts businesses owned by religious groups.

  Michelangelo Signorile

  Religious, Years, Firsts

  "Why New Polling Shows Both the GOP and LGBT Groups Are Out of Touch" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2014.

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• I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Country, Race, Giving

  "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.

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• When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

  John Boehner

  People, Political, Minimum Wage

  "What if there were no minimum wage?" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2013.

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• All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

  David Eddings

  Three, Generations, Want

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• The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

  Moliere

  Philosophy, Heart, Exercise

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• The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

  Helen Suzman

  Years, Law, People

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• Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

  Bob Black

  Discrimination, Ends, Should

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Space, Omission

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell”, p.271

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• Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

  Jacques Delors

  Past, Unions, Protection

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