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Quotations regarding 'Labor'

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New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
Carol Bellamy, American Educator (1942-  )
Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
John Bigelow, American Lawyer (1817-1911)
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
Allan Bloom, American Philosopher (1930-1992)
Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.
Ella R. Bloor, -
The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.
Sherwood Boehlert, American Politician (1936-  )
Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
Billy Bragg, British Musician (1957-  )
Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.
Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman (1860-1925)
For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.
Andre Braugher, American Actor (1962-  )
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
Arthur C. Brooks, American Author (1964-  )
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Thomas Browne, British Scientist (1605-1682)
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning, English Poet (1812-1889)
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert Burns, Scottish Poet (1759-1796)
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton, English Writer (1577-1640)
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel Butler, British Poet (1835-1902)
The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.
Jane Byrne, American Politician (1934-  )
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus, French Philosopher (1913-1960)
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher (1795-1881)
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, American Actor (1939-2010)
It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
Barbara Castle, British Politician (1910-2002)
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Ellery Channing, American Writer (1780-1842)
 
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