Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 128 Labor quotesLabor QuotesLabor Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The non-producers now receive the larger share of what those who labor produce. The result is natural. Discontent culminates in exactly the same ratio that intelligence sustains aspiration.~ Frederick Douglass Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.~ William Faulkner With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.~ Milton Friedman The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.~ Milton Friedman The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.~ Milton Friedman We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.~ Milton Friedman [U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.~ Milton Friedman Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.~ David Frost The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.~ John Kenneth Galbraith My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.~ Indira Gandhi The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.~ Henry George Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.~ Henry George Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.~ Andre Gide If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.~ Gerald Gilder What does anti-Semitism have to do with socialism? I would put the question this way: What does the Jew have to do with socialism? Socialism has to do with labor. When did one ever see him working instead of plundering, stealing and living from the sweat of others? As socialists we are opponents of the Jews because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism.~ Joseph Paul Goebbels We are a workers’ party because we see in the coming battle between finance and labor the beginning and the end of the structure of the twentieth century. We are on the side of labor and against finance ... The value of labor under socialism will be determined by its value to the state, to the whole community. Labor means creating value, not haggling over things.~ Joseph Paul Goebbels Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.~ Ulysses S. Grant It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.~ Alexander Hamilton It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.~ Dag Hammarskjold Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print