Labor Quotes - Page 16

• I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Trying, Accomplish

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• The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Love Is, Self, Heavy

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• Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Division Of Labor, Peaceful, Society

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Rights, Government, Years

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• There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing you have and any time you can combined labor and love you've really made a match.

  James Carville

  Love You, Simple, Giving

  "Diane Sawyer Reminisces About '92 'Super Bowl' Dem Documentary". "Good Morning America" with Diane Sawyer, newsbusters.org. October 7, 2008.

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• But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our impieties, having recovered us who were not half dead merely, but were already in tombs and sepulchers, and altogether foul and offensive, saves us, both anciently and now, by his beneficent zeal, beyond the expectation of any one, even of ourselves, and imparts liberally of the Father's benefits-he who is the giver of life and light, our great Physician and King and Lord, the Christ of God.

  Eusebius

  Kings, Father, Taken

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• I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.

  Amy Ray

  Mean, Successful, Careers

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

  Christina Romer

  People, Helping, Firm

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• If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Party, Reflection, Winning

  "Dennis Ross: 18 Months to Avoid War with Iran". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2007.

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• There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.

  John Shelton Reed

  Running, Jobs, Justice

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• A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

  Kevin Rudd

  Australia, Tears, Narrative

  Address to the Chifley Research Centre Dinner Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the World's First Majority Labor Government Old Parliament House Canberra, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 06, 2010.

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• We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Cutting, Labor Laws, Reform

  "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lalli Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.

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• In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

  Albert Speer

  Giving, Information, Armament

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• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  Evan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Appreciate

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• Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

  Richard Trumka

  Jobs, Air, Should Have

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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• At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Book, Slave Labor, Moments

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• All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rich, Economics, Poor

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• Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Art, Jobs

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• What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Done, Answers, Demand

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• I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Organization, Important, Organize

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Memories, Character, Writing

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• If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.

  Lou Dobbs

  Jobs, Class, Volunteer

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• If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. . . .

  Joseph James Ettor

  Powerful, Winning, Hands

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• Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

  John L. Lewis

  Goal, Democracy, Economy

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.

  Peter J. McGuire

  Work, Color, Organization

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