“He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.” WorldFirstsArtWholeTypeKingsCreatingLaborArmyDemocraticDevicesSenatePrinting Author:Thomas Carlyle
“When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer and more secure because people are not relegated to living in the shadows and not creating underground economies, it also is better for wages because the fact that people are working on the books in the open means that there's greater demand for labor and you don't have this submarket.” PeopleMeanBookCountryFactsLightEconomyGreaterDemandTaxesCreatingShadowLaborOur CountrySecureWagesAbiding Author:Martin O'Malley
“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.” ShouldPersonsJobsYoungCreatingOrdinaryLaborAccessGrantedHillsParksDisabilityStatuesMonumentOrdinary Life Author:Bill Shorten
“Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.” MenWayMeanLongHardHelpingGoalFreedomGoneAchieveCreatingLaborBurdenReasonableLong WayLiberators Book:Einstein on Peace Source: Einstein on Peace
“A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.” KnowsWorldShouldArtistOrderGivenCreativeStudyCreatingCapacityLaborIncludingAlmightyAvoidingRivalsCreative WritersDuplication Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.” AbleValuesRichKeysCreatingLaborFruitBeing RichCreating SomethingKey To Happiness Author:Arthur C. Brooks
“Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.” PeopleNeedsOrderQualitySucceedCreatingBuiltLaborCommunistQuantityQuantity And Quality Author:Joseph Stalin