Labor Quotes - Page 40

• Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

  Frantz Fanon

  Fruit, Wealth, Results

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Principles, Slavery

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.115, The New Press

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• When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

  John Banville

  Certain, Sentences, Knows

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• In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.

  Oliver DeMille

  Jobs, Progress, Experts

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• Syllogisms а la mode - If you are against labor racketeers, then you are against the working man. If you are against demagogues, then you are against democracy. If you are against Christianity, then you are against God. If you are against trying a can of Old Dr. Quack's Cancer Salve, then you are in favor of letting Uncle Julius die.

  H. L. Mencken

  Uncles, Cancer, Men

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• The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Crush, Dream, Effort

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• Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

  Thomas Adams

  Healing, Sick, Prevention

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• If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Community, Police

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.414, Yale University Press

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• The view... from my apartment... was the World Trade Center... and now it's gone, they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity, and strength, and labor, and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what? You know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that!

  Jon Stewart

  Views, Imagination, Liberty

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• People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

  Marcus Aurelius

  People, Purpose, Impulse

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.110, Modern Library

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• All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ignorance, Men, Effort

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1371, Modern Library

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• In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

  Lyudmila Alexeyeva

  Compassion, Russia, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Parents' work has shifted markedly around the world - and that goes for every region. Men in particular have been moving away from farmed-based work, and into industrial and post-industrial work - so they've moved away from the home. Women, likewise, have moved into the paid labor force and away from the home.

  Jody Heymann

  Moving, Home, Men

  "Forgotten Families". Interview with Juliana Bunim, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2006.

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• The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff.

  David Grubbs

  Writing, Division Of Labor, Discipline

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.

  Vito Acconci

  Writing, Awkward, Made

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Tests, Sincerity

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• If you have made covenants, keep them. If you haven’t made them, make them. If you have made them and broken them, repent and repair them. It is never too late so long as the Master of the vineyard says there is time. Please listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit telling you right now, this very moment, that you should accept the atoning gift of the Lord Jesus Christ and enjoy the fellowship of His labor. Don’t delay. It’s getting late.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Long, Broken

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• Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Powerful, Opportunity

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• The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.

  Bob Shacochis

  Letting Go, Fun, Writing

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• I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

  Niall Matter

  Jobs, Intellectual

  "Niall Matter Exclusive Interview EUREKA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 07, 2011.

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• Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

  Pope Francis

  Earth, Fruit, Moral

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.40, Orbis Books

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• Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Enemy, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4337, Library of Alexandria

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• ...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

  Karl Marx

  Doe, Compulsion, Realms

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole”, p.954, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer, but those at the lower end aren't moving ahead as quickly as the capitalists.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Country, Moving, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.

  Angela Merkel

  Children, Hands, Gaps

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