Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
Mary McCarthy
WorkManIdentityLaborMoreHuman
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
J. D. Hayworth
GoodMoneyDayYouBackLabor
When labor migration is properly managed, it is a conduit for skills and wages to flow where they are most needed. It can, and must, be a triple-win, benefiting migrants and their families, their home country, and their destination.
Guy Ryder
HomeDestinationCountryLaborFlow
I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.
Marty Robbins
BusinessLaborHonestBecause
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Harold Wilson
LaborMonarchyIndustryIntensive
My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
Holly Near
ParentsCityLaborMovementUpBeen
There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.
Michael Richards
NewLaborBirthInvolvedTownLot
Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start-ups, early stage companies, and family-owned businesses. In response, business owners would be forced to either lay off workers or raise prices to offset the rise in labor costs.
Fabrizio Moreira
BusinessFinancialEarlyRiseLabor
Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.
Hilda Solis
ChildrenLaborWorkersHereAbroad
I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
WorldThinkBetterDramaLaborKnow
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
Dana Rohrabacher
LaborWantHiringWagesClaimThen
People in Tel Aviv can not imagine, but in 1990, here in Leipzig or Dresden, whoever wanted to buy a car had to wait 14 years. The East Germans worked like people in the West, but the fruits of their labor were harvested by a criminal regime.
Helmut Kohl
CarPeopleWaitLaborYearsBuy
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Ludwig von Mises
PeaceSocietyLaborDivisionModern
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
Barry Commoner
ChildLaborChild LaborPolicy
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell
WarLaborHumanActProductsLives
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Josiah Warren
LuxuryLaborNowEmpiresCheckOwn
The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs.
Eric Schneiderman
PowerLawEnoughHelpLaborMeet
Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.
Jaron Lanier
AcceptancePeopleLaborGoogleExist
Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.
Ellen G. White
WorkLoseToo MuchLaborSightSome
Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.
Dixie Carter
HopeGreatEffortLaborWhatever
I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.
David Dewhurst
TodaySupportTexasLaborEconomy
The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.
Douglas Rushkoff
LaborFacebookListsMarketHours
If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil.
David Autor
PowerGreatThinkYouLaborHuman
This is a business of love and labor.
Chester Bennington
LoveBusinessLabor
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