I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.
It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly reach his goal - an affluent level of income - solely by means of his labor.
The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity. . . Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
When we build. . . let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think. . . that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.
Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.
Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.
No labor is hopeless.
These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.
Labor, you know, is prayer.
