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“Congenial labor is essence of happiness.”

Work Labor Essence

Author:A. C. Benson

“The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.”

Believe Hard I Believe Design Building Concepts Labor Essence Software Entity Representation Constructs Testing Fidelity Representing Specifications

Author:Fred Brooks

“The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to carry this debt. [...] The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.”

Real Problem Lying Ability Economy Serious Labor Essence Financial Debt Saving Spheres Factories Bubbles Estates Savings Overhead Bond Market

Author:Michael Hudson

“Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.”

Heart Doe Existence Capitalism Labor Connections Essence Inequality Features Operations Instability

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!”

Heart Given Force Labor Essence Sacred Workers Almighty Celestial Almighty God

Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present

“We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.”

Source: The Portable Milton

“The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated.”

People World Wells Millions Lows Labor Essence Income Educated Communism Collapse Well Educated Low Income

Author:Milton Friedman

“Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.”

Long Has Beens Moments Wisdom Pain Form Pleasure Blood Objects Long Time Labor Essence Dull Melancholy Cheerful

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.”

People Mean Ends Use Economy Achieve Labor Essence Division Cooperation Market Economy Specialization

Author:Stephan Kinsella

“The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.”

“We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.”

People Should Art Courses Beauty Fire Ordinary Labor Should Have Essence Ordinary People Art Of Living Essence Of Beauty

Author:Kenji Miyazawa

“The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.”

Humans Economy Democracy Rights Labor Essence Trade Investment Environmental Human Rights Consumers Globalization Imperatives Subordination Environmental Justice Consumer Protection

Author:Ralph Nader

“The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.”

People Real Able Form Energy Nature Habit Degrees Labor Essence Independent Active Superiors Artifice

Book:The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton

Source: The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton

“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”