Labor Quotes - Page 20

• Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

  Francis Parkman

  Versailles, Earning, France

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe”, p.853, Library of America

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• If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care... My staff and technicians provide it... If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Care, Slave

  Rand Paul's remarks at the town hall meeting in Lexington, November 2009.

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• This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.

  Carroll Quigley

  Simple, Able, Groups

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• When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.

  Carroll Quigley

  Division Of Labor, Common, Process

  "The Evolution of Civilizations". Book by Carroll Quigley, Second Edition 1979, Chapter 8, Canaanite and Minooan Civilizations, p. 241, 1961.

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• You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Country, Future, Men

  "White Power". Book by George Lincoln Rockwell, 1967.

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• Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.

  Joanna Russ

  Mother, Jobs, Sorry

  "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 7, Chapter 1, p. 137), February 1975.

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• What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Country, Storm, Captains

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 209), 2004.

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• Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.

  Erik Naggum

  Fighting, Long, People

  "Source access vs dynamism". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. August 28, 1999.

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• When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.

  Richard Sennett

  Country, Jobs, Writing

  Richard Sennett (2007). “The Culture of the New Capitalism”, p.87, Yale University Press

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• Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.

  Mancur Olson

  Political, Doubt, Unions

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.136, Harvard University Press

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• There exist in the world only two great parties; that of those who prefer to live from the produce of their labor or of their property, and that of those who prefer to live on the labor or the property of others.

  Charles Dunoyer

  Party, Two, World

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• The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And nation that they make sublime, He feels and sees that Nature knows Nothing of time in what she does, But has a leisure infinite Wherein to do her work aright.

  Henry Abbey

  Nature, Artist, Work Out

  Henry Abbey (1884). “The City of Success: And Other Poems”

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• Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

  Edmund Morris

  Eye, Hands, Violence

  Edmund Morris (2010). “Theodore Rex”, p.60, Random House

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• War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, May, Wealth

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.224, Columbia University Press

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• The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor . The limiting of output by the workman, and the limiting by the employer of the amount a workman is allowed to earn, are both factors which militate against that harmonious co-operation of employer and employee which is essential to their highest common good.

  Henry Gantt

  Essentials, Today, Common

  Henry Laurence Gantt (1961). “Gantt on Management: Guidelines for Today's Executive”

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• By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Mean, Hands, Economic Value

  "Web 2.0lier than thou" by Nicholas G. Carr, www.roughtype.com. October 23, 2006.

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• In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Teacher, Giving Up

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.

  James Mill

  Mean, Men, Law

  James Mill (1829). “Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”, p.4

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• The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.

  Robert Gilpin

  Technology, World, Corporations

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.260, Princeton University Press

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• Burning 2000 people took about 24 hours in the five stoves. Usually we could manage to cremate only about 1700 to 1800. We were thus always behind in our cremating because as you can see it was much easier to exterminate by gas than to cremate, which took so much more time and labor.

  Rudolf Hoss

  People, Burning, Hours

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

  Michael Hudson

  United States, Today, Asia

  "Higher Taxes on Top 1% Equals Higher Productivity". therealnews.com. January 1, 2011.

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• The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to carry this debt. [...] The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Lying, Essence

  "Financial Capitalism v. Industrial Capitalism". michael-hudson.com. September 3, 1998.

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• In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Technology, Labor Force

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.102, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• One’s life, liberty and the products of one’s labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra classical natural law theory, legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. However, from the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their health care, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, Liberty, Want

  "The Defunct Foundations of the Republic". www.wnd.com. January 01, 2010.

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• It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody

  Nick Minchin

  Doctors, Taxpayers, Revenue

  "Bligh Chief to NBN Co to be Paid $450k". www.smh.com.au. November 18, 2009.

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