Labor Quotes - Page 38

• I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices.

  Michelle Williams

  People, Choices, Lists

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• No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

  William Ellery Channing

  Beautiful, Men, Luxury

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• We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.

  John Lubbock

  Eye, Land, Inheritance

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• The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

  Richard Steele

  Laziness, Doing Nothing

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• ...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.

  Henry Taylor

  Strong, Blood, Law

  Sir Henry Taylor (1835). “Philip van Artevelde: a dramatic romance, in two parts”, p.36

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• My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.

  Mother Jones

  Labor Force, Together, Want

  Mother Jones (1988). “The speeches and writings of Mother Jones”

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• I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor. Think of the thousands who are killed every year and there is no redress for it. We will fight until the mines are made secure and human life valued more than props. Look things in the face. Don't' fear a governor; don't fear anybody. You pay the governor; he has the right to protect you. You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth, so I say, let the fight go on; if nobody else will keep on, I will.

  Mother Jones

  Army, Fighting, Thinking

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• All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

  William Law

  Ambition, Pride, Envy

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.153, Paulist Press

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• Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

  Lord Byron

  Sun, Stills, Labour

  'The Corsair' (1814) canto 1, st. 8

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• Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

  Mother Jones

  Strong, Hands, World

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• I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not doing it to make a profit off my labor. You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

  Michael Moore

  Art, Thinking, Copyright Law

  "Moore: Pirate my film, no problem" by Iain S. Bruce, Sunday Herald, July 04, 2004.

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• The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

  John Locke

  Mean, Provision, Given

  John Locke (1813). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.257

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• He who labors diligently need never despair.

  Menander

  Perseverance, Labor Day, Despair

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• Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

  Adam Smith

  Order, Numbers, People

  "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, (Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 2), 1776.

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• Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.

  William Watson

  Work, Tired, Long

  William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”

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• Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Real, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.12, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Pain, Eye, Angel

  Jonathan Edwards, American Tract Society (184?). “A History of the Work of Redemption: Comprising an Outline of Church History”

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• The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.

  Richard Cecil

  Men, Mind, Trying

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

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• To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative" to determine the products.

  Paul Goodman

  Jobs, Exercise, Men

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.41, New York Review of Books

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• Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.

  Paul Goodman

  Jobs, Party, Men

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

  Stanley Tucci

  Hate, Moving, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain.

  Richard Sherman

  Artist, Personality, Stories

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .

  Kristen Stewart

  Mother, Long, Hell

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

  Grant Morrison

  Accomplishment, Soul, Want

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Years

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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