"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."

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"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."

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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Labor, Injustice, Business, Exploitation, Profit

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Labor, Creation, Responsibility, Neglect, Irony

"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

Labor, State

"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

Labor, Night, Rest

"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."

Henry Miller, American Author

Labor, Strength, Work, Spirit, Action

"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."

Linda Chavez, American Author

Labor, Workers

"We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor."

Samuel Gompers, American Activist

Labor, Results, Want

"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Labor, Employment, Freedom, Society, Work

"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Labor, Workers, Insecurity, Power, Control

"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Labor, Work, Society, Slavery, Freedom

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"Custom is second nature."

Nature

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

World

"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."

Religion

"God is best known in not knowing him."

God

"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."

Being

"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."

Psychology

"Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things."

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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."

"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."

"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."

"We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor."

"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."

"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."

"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

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"Custom is second nature."

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."

"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."

"God is best known in not knowing him."

"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."

"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."

"Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things."