“Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.” StudyEconomicSubjectsFieldsTheoryEconomicsLaborMarketingInstructionCastesEconomic TheoryPrestigious Book:the new industrial state Source: the new industrial state
“The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.” ThinkingProcessTroubleSubjectsJudgmentLaborConclusionPersistRectify Book:Works Source: Works
“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.” MayStillsHardGamesSportsHistoryFateBloodSubjectsHard WorkReturnVictoryDisciplineGainsLaborBlindRewardsMetaphorWeatherFarmingSeductiveQuirksVisualizing Author:Garrison Keillor
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...A wise and frugal government...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned...Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated...Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands?” MenHandsGovernmentOpinionWiseSubjectsMouthsLaborCongressSpreadBreadVarietyWelfareContributionUnlimitedTaxationSimplifyFrugalUnlimited PowerPropagationGeneral Welfare Author:Thomas Jefferson
“... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.” MenLongCharacterSexVirtueRightsSubjectsDemandLaborDressesPrivilegeAppearanceMannersMotiveEndeavorRidiculeRights And PrivilegesPersonal Appearance Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897
“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price.” WorldHas BeensSaidImagineSubjectsMastersEconomicsLaborOrganizationAccountsRaisesConstantUnionsIgnorantCombinationUniformsWagesWorkmenTacitWealth Of Nations Author:Adam Smith
“Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.” IfsWorldLittlesChristSubjectsDangerGratitudeOfficeLaborRewardsBurdenTemptation Author:Martin Luther