Labor Quotes - Page 19

• Labor in loneliness is irksome.

  Mark Twain

  Loneliness

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.512, Velvet Element Books

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• The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.

  Russell Baker

  Country, Men, People

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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• The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Men, Desire, Habit

  Isaiah Berlin (1978). “Karl Marx: His Life and Environment”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?

  Herbert Spencer

  Responsibility, Community, Desire

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• The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and the idlers, the supporters and the supported, the honest and the dishonest. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the unpaid labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. All laborers should be brothers.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Brother, Men, Class

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.236, Library of Alexandria

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• The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.

  Fred Brooks

  Believe, Essence, Design

  "No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering". Paper by Fred Brooks, 1986.

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• It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Foundation, Inward

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.10, VM eBooks

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• The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Hands, Order

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.137, VM eBooks

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• When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal conditions resulting from restrictions and usurpations, and that instead of accepting protection, what labor should demand is freedom. That those who advocate any extension of freedom choose to go no further than suits their own special purpose is no reason why freedom itself should be distrusted.

  Henry George

  Special, Purpose, Abnormal

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

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• By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

  Demosthenes

  Men, Excellence, May

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• The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology was Protestant and bourgeois, and whose politics were petty-capitalist rather than traditionalist, had no reason to share the social outlook of the rural classes of Europe. In Europe land was limited and dear, while labor was abundant and relatively cheap; in America the ratio between land and labor was inverted.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Europe, Land, Class

  "The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R". Book by Richard Hofstadter, Chapter I, part II, p. 44, 1955.

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• So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims.

  Samuel Gompers

  Wise, Long, Decision

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1948). “The American Federationist”

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• [The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.

  Samuel Gompers

  People, Movement, Determined

  Proceedings of the Convention, Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Labor (p. 37), 1923.

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• The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Division Of Labor, Dignity, Conditions

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.133, Routledge

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• At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to the established society of enslavement. ... Those who bore the brunt of the untrue reality and who, therefore, seemed to be most in need of attaining its subversion were not the concern of philosophy. It abstracted from them and continued to abstract from them.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Philosophy, Reality, Intellectual

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 134-135), 1964.

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• Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

  Michel Foucault

  Work, Fall, Men

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.55, Vintage

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• The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women's unions.

  Warren Farrell

  Husband, Men, Feminism

  "The Myth of Male Power". The Myth of Male Power, 1993.

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• The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

  Larry Wall

  Order, Years, Court

  Usenet article, 1998.

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• The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

  Paul Keating

  Party, Two, Together

  "Keating criticises ALP over compulsory super plan". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. March 5, 2007.

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• Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Men, Joy, Rewards

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.

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• Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

  Charles A. Reich

  Rewards, Our Society, Saws

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

  Thomas Frank

  Prayer, War, School

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.

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• There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

  Michael Wilbon

  Summer, Memorial Day, Cities

  "The Chat House With Michael Wilbon: Tiger Woods, Michael Vick and the NFL". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Today, Easier

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wise, Eight, Numbers

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