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“The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?”

“The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve as little labor as possible. And so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.”

People Want Littles Has Beens Land Essentials Standards Labor Producers Consumers Complexity Expensive Consideration Convenience Cheapness

Author:Wendell Berry

“The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential importance the principles of their party organization; but he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best.”

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?”

Whole Form Desire Individual Community Responsibility Essentials Benefits Labor Relation Slavery Slave Socialism Oppression Compelled Taxation Coercion Essential Questions

Author:Herbert Spencer

“An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation”

Artist Creation Essentials Labor Portions Supplication Invocation

Book:The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Source: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

“the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.”

Reader Essentials Labor Critics

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.”

“By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.”

Roles Essentials Economics Labor Deny Distinction Productive Sole Consumption Efficiency Rationality Criteria Surplus Respectability Elevating Unproductive

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.”

People Mind States Body Habit Essentials Labor Welfare Mind And Body Rigor

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”

Humans War Peace Products Essentials Labor Destruction Human Life Anti War Antiwar

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.”

Should Essentials Labor Organization Unions Eras Organize Aquariums Labor Union Trade Unions Organized Labor

Book:Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics

Source: Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics

“You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here because I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest, pressing her palm flat against his rapidly thumping pulse. "I'm obligated by my heart. It's decided you're essential to my existence, you see. And it's threatening to go out on labor strike if I don't make you mine this very day. So yes. I am here on bended knee, acting from a deep, undeniable sense of obligation. I am, quite simply, yours." He swallowed hard. "If you'll have me.”

Ifs Want Feels Wells Heart Hard Hands Acting Existence Mines My Heart Essentials Labor Decided Sorry Strikes Obligation Knees Flats Chests Want Me I'm Sorry Threatening Palms Pulse Lilies

Author:Tessa Dare

“The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.”

Moments Hours Levels Half Willing Discipline Essentials Labor Dancing Dance Devotion Dancer Ballet Classroom Lowest Steadfast Drudgery Inspirational Dance Short Dance Ballet Class

Author:Merce Cunningham