"Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital."

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"Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital."

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"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

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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

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"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league."

Ron Jaworski, American Athlete

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"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Labor, Work, Stability, Routine, Control

"We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe."

Jerome K. Jerome, English Author

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"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

"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

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."

Barack Obama, American President

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"Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth."

Equality, Earth, Liberty, Security

"I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified."

Society, Murder, Punishment

"Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction."

Destruction, Necessity, State

"For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism."

Government, May, Reason, Rome, Socialism

"To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury."

Force, Injury, Insult, Liberty

"One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free."

Effort, Justice, Wrong

"The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice."

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"The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary."

Existence, May, State, Will

"Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain."

Pain,

"And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory."

Act, Ignorance, May, Punishment