L Quotes
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“Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.”
“Labor is the law of happiness.”
“Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.”
“Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.”
“Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration”
“Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.”
“Labor is the true standard of value.”
“Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.”
“Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.”
Source: On the contrary
“Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.”
Source: On the contrary
“Labor law violations are alive and well in the USA.”
“Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.”
“Labor of AI (The Sonnet)
Asking AI to help you
write, is not writing.
Asking AI to tune your
voice, is not singing.
Asking AI to help you
paint, is not painting.
Asking AI to help you
code, is not coding.
Asking AI to help you
create, is not creativity.
Asking AI to build your
dream, is not dreaming.
Asking AI to narrate
books, is not storytelling.
AI oughta do manual labor,
so humans can do the creating.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.”
Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“Labor party wants to make the economy fairer for everybody with a new industrial strategy and by investing in different parts of the UK. And we are not following the cynical approach of saying: Young people don't usually vote so we don't have to make any offer to them. But to succeed, we need a progressive future partnership with the EU. It is not easy, but I genuinely think it is possible to do. And I want Labour in power to do it, because the damage that is being done is profound.”
“Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.”
“Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.”
“Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.”
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.”
“Labor union members, especially white men, are the target group for Donald Trump. He's had a lot of success in getting their support. So, it's not at all clear that labor unions will be able to do as much as they once could to get their members to actually vote for the candidate the union itself supports.”
“Labor unions have a long history of benefitting all workers, even those who are not members of unions, because everyone's wages go up. If we don't increase membership - and membership in labor unions is going down because of the attacks against organized labor - it's something every single American, whether they're officially in a union or not, should be concerned about. It's a spiral. It's a weakening of the middle class and our economy can't sustain that.”
“Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.”
“Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.”
“Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.”
“Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.”
“Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.”
“Labor! all labor is noble and holy!
Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.”
“Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.”
“Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)
“Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.”
“Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.”
“Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.”
Source: An Idyl of Work
“Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.”
“Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.”
“Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.”
Source: Past and Present
“Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.”
“Labor, you know, is prayer.”
“Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people.”
“Labor: a powerful medicine.”
“Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.”
Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change
“Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.”
“Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.”
Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“Laboratory tests are the next set of important numbers to know. Here are the key lab test numbers you need to know: 1. Complete blood count 2. General metabolic panel with fasting blood sugar and lipid panel 3. HgA1C 4. Vitamin D 5. Thyroid panel 6. C-reactive protein”
“Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids to be academics, professors. Academics want their kids to be artists. And artists don't care if their kids are laborers or not. They can be anything.”
“Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.”
Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...