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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. -- Samuel Gompers
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. -- Marguerite Duras
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. -- John Ruskin
I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. -- Chris Ware
Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids to be academics, professors. Academics want their kids to be artists. And artists don't care if their kids are laborers or not. They can be anything. -- Demetri Martin
I class myself as a manual laborer. -- Theodore White
Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion. -- Charles E. Merrill
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. -- Karl Marx
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. -- Abraham Lincoln
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. -- Julien Benda
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. -- Dan DeCarlo
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. -- Khalil Gibran
We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward. -- Tom Fitton
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. -- Marilyn Monroe
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. -- William Graham Sumner
If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once. -- Charles E. Merrill
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. -- Denis Kearney
If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time. -- Mark Hanna
I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me. -- Om Puri
My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you. -- Jack Bowman
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it. -- Lucy Larcom
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order. -- Rudolf Arnheim
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers. -- Leland Stanford
Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order. -- Rudolf Arnheim
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal. -- Leland Stanford
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. -- Louis Nizer
Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination. -- Alan Huffman
Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else. -- Steven Rattner
Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working. -- Jose Ferreira
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. -- Andrew Jackson
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them. -- Jeffrey Kluger
A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable. -- John Bates Clark
Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. -- Thomas Jefferson
Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers. -- Walt Disney
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences. -- Anne Bradstreet
Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom. -- Paul Achleitner
Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers. -- Maya Angelou
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline. -- Henry David Thoreau
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! -- Phoebe Cary
The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers. -- Dallas Willard
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My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent. -- Rose Pastor Stokes
The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.) -- Sophie Scholl
American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World -- Adam Gopnik
No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge. -- Cornelia Funke

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