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«Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu (Novelist, Spiritual leader) | About: Labor | Keywords: abundant, Africa, buttress, buttresses, buttressing, invest, South, South Africa, systems, vicious
«Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over»
Author: Henry George | About: Labor | Keywords: inefficient, poorly
«Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.»
Author: Mary Ellen Chase | About: Fathers, Labor | Keywords: decent, manual, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up
«The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor»
Author: William Cobbett | About: Labor, Taxation | Keywords: taxation
«Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.»
Author: Adam Smith | About: Labor, Money | Keywords: labour, originally, purchase, purchased, silver
«Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau | About: Labor, Moderation | Keywords: appetite, excess, indulging, physicians, prevents, sharpens, temperance
«The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker) | About: Happiness, Labor, Life | Keywords: in labor
«Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | About: God, Labor | Keywords: All Good Things
«Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Ignorance, Knowledge, Labor, Mankind | Keywords: aversion, aversions, even a little, Supposing
«Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.»
Author: Thomas Merton | About: Conscience, Fidelity, Heroism, Labor, Peace, Purity, Sacrifice, Truth, War | Keywords: fidelities, fidelity, heroic, heroism, purity
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