Labor Quotes - Page 15

• Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

  Georg Simmel

  Cities, Division Of Labor, Firsts

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Small Numbers, Hands

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• When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Brother, Rewards, Chiefs

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• Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.

  David B. Haight

  Remuneration, Behalf

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• Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Work, Progress, Comfort

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• America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.

  Jesse Helms

  Opportunity, America, People

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• With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Clever, Printing Money, Unemployment

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• Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies in humble corners of the world, where growers pour their intention, their character and their love of labor into each wine.

  Greg Brown

  Lying, Wine, Humble

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• In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.

  Murray Bookchin

  Art, Medicine, Goal

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• Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.

  Bill Mollison

  Stress, Thoughtful, Focus

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• Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or at least self-sustaining, but this president never talks about how they might achieve that goal. Instead, he criticizes those who made the right choices and now enjoy the fruits of their labor. Rather than use successful people as examples for the poor to follow, the president seeks to punish the rich with higher taxes and more regulations on their businesses.

  Cal Thomas

  Heart, Successful, Self

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• It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

  Henry George

  Business, Wages, World

  Henry George (1911). “perplexed philosopher [Herbert Spencer”

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• The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, White

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jobs, Labor Force, Salary

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• No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

  Hilda Solis

  Children, Should Have, Captivity

  "Protecting Children and Workers Around the Globe" by Hilda Solis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2010.

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• On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.

  Ned Sublette

  New Orleans, Slave, Ownership

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• The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Class, Organization

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

  Andy Stern

  Issues, United States, Movement

  "Andy Stern Laments Washington Politics But Scoffs At Idea Of Running For Office" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

  Andy Stern

  Roles, Movement, Social

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• He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

  Saint Augustine

  Doe, Littles, Way

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• No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strong, Weight, Enough

  "Cicero De Officiis".

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• The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

  Phineas Quimby

  Philosophical, Wrapping, Dies

  Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (2009). “The Complete Collected Works of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (Hardcover Edition)”, p.456, Seed of Life Publishing

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• It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Technology, Soul, Rebel

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Thinking, Saving

  "Good Work". Book by E.F. Schumacher, p. 25, 1985.

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• Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Land, Support, Arrogance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2253, Library of Alexandria

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