Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne

They worked hard to not give labor a dedicated slot today.

One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline, the less used to dialectical method you’re likely to be. In fact, young...

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy.

When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him…It was all drowned...

He’d be washing dishes, or riding a tractor mower. He got sweaty and dirty. He wasn’t afraid of manual labor. When you see your teacher do that, it’s a great inspiration.

No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all day for slave wages when you can get rich on your...

I’ve always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions – a respectful relationship.

A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience...

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when I put my shoes under my bed. The courageous men, women and children who are with me (blocked from crossing the bridge...

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

We’re looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.

Labor-intensive work that would employ a lot of people is done overseas. The newer manufacturers are kind of lean and mean, and they just can’t replace the jobs. It takes fewer employees to turn out...

I think that he was able to keep labor peace for two decades, which allowed us to get media contracts that are the highest of any sport anywhere in the world.

I think we’ve passed an inflection point. We’re seeing an end to the golden period of extremely low-cost labor in China. There are plenty of workers, but the supply of uneducated workers is shrinking.

Only rarely do doctors in training have the opportunity to sit continuously with laboring women for hours. Most are taught to intervene in the normal process so often and so early that they have never...

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses — that man your navy, and recruit your army — that have...

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.

Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

Based on my initial review, I don’t believe that this situation qualifies as an emergency under the National Labor Relations Act because it does not affect an entire industry. Nor is it likely that the...

We get volunteers throughout our organization, whether it’s manufacturers and supplies, the contractors donate equipment and supplies labor and we do it all for free. The crane companies, everyone is doing it for free.

The rising level of unemployment and sentiment that a turnaround in labor market conditions is not around the corner have contributed to deflating consumers’ spirits this month. Expectations are likely to remain weak until the...

Once they get the labor savings in place, their troubles aren’t over, … They need to squeeze more out of secured creditors.

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

This irrelevance of molecular arrangements for macroscopic results has given rise to the tendency to confine physics and chemistry to the study of homogeneous systems as well as homogeneous classes. In statistical mechanics a great...

Things aren’t as bad as Jason (Furman) said but they’re not as good as the labor secretary said, … The markets clearly were expecting a better number than 96,000. You’ve got to wonder … are...

I pray for the day when working men and women are able to earn a fair share of the wealth they produce in a capitalist system, a day when all Americans are able to enjoy...

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

The borough has labor counsel and labor counsel is not here, so we are not in a position to respond to the offer.

Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.

There are still some signs of tightness in the labor market.

You got the eggs in you; the world is fully ready to celebrate the chicks out of your laying labour. Never give up. Go and breed! Go and breed great dreams.

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.

It’s a surprise reversal today after the labor number this morning. The resignation of O’Neill was certainly a positive for the market. That was clearly the catalyst. The market was also getting a little oversold....

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of...

She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, that since the customer or sucker was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce...

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.

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

All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward...

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the...

If capital and labor ever do get together it’s good night for the rest of us

It’s going to be tough. He’s got to keep good labor relations, but they’ve got to cut more in the labor area.

There’s a lot of prep work in the rice. Making the rice is actually the most labor-intensive part of making sushi, but it’s a very important step.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men...

I think at the Fed they believe we’re getting near full employment. You’ve got unit labor costs going up. If we get a very strong jobs number, I don’t totally rule out a 50-basis point...