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“Capitalist society is characterized by a degree of labor mobility much greater than prevailed in any previous form of society.”
Paul Sweezy (1910–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In every society, from the most primitive to the most advanced, it is essential that labor be applied to production and that goods be distributed among the members of society. What changes in the course of history is the way in which these productive and distributive activities are organized and carried out.”
Paul Sweezy (1910–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most serious criticism of EMU is that by abandoning exchange rate adjustments it transfers to the labor market the task of adjusting for competitiveness and relative prices... losses in output and employment (and pressure on the European central bank to inflate) will predominate.”
Rudiger Dornbusch (1942–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One immediate result of the economic down-turn was a hardening of attitudes towards ‘foreign’ workers of all sorts. If published unemployment rates in West Germany (close to zero in 1970) did not climb above 8 percent of the labor force despite a slump in demand for manufactured goods, it was because most of the unemployed workers in Germany were not German—and thus not officially recorded.”
Tony Judt (1948–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I mean, the enclosures in Britain would never have happened without the king's army and without state brutality for pushing peasants off their ancestors' land and creating the commodification of labor, the commodification of land which then gave rise to capitalism.”
Yanis Varoufakis (born 1961) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky discussion the New York Public Library (26 April 2016)
“Primus at ille labor versu tenuisse legentem Suspensum, incertumque dia qui denique rerum Eventus maneant.”
Marco Girolamo Vida (1480–1566) said by 1566 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was such a large sperm, my mother went into labor during conception.”
Brad Garrett (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since the God of the Christians blessed and rewarded toil, there was nothing, surely, to prevent him from approving the effort of the bourgeois. True, the bourgeois' wealth was often far from being the product of his own labor, but he always liked be told that it was, and if he was to be made a Christian it was necessary to insist on this point.”
Bernard Groethuysen (1880–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's our (Council of Labor Affairs) responsibility to take care of financially disadvantaged families. We've seen a better economy and we know there must be changes.”
Wang Ju-hsuan (born 1961) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wang Ju-hsuan (2011) cited in "Minimum wage to be increased by five percent" on The China Post, 22 July 2011.
“Everything we feared about communism – that we would lose our houses and savings and be forced to labor eternally for meager wages with no voice in the system – has come true under capitalism.”
Jeff Sparrow (born 1969) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Communism: A Love Story (2007)
“Capitalism could not have survived at any point in its history without state intervention. Coercive state measures at every step have denied workers access to capital, forced them to sell their labor in a buyer's market, and protected the centers of economic power from the dangers of the free market.”
Kevin Carson (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I affirm that Indonesia is a true friend of Malaysia and I hope that trade and business relations, investment, culture and labor issues can be improved. The friendship between the two (nations) must be strengthened.”
Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anwar Ibrahim (2022) cited in: "Indonesia's Jokowi first foreign leader to call Anwar with congratulatory message" in The Star, 24 November 2022.
“Is it fitting that our intelligence exert itself and labor in speculations which are not binding upon us, in fruitless argumentation, in laws which have no application to us, while we leave to habit and abandon to mechanical observance our great debt to our Creator?”
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746) said by 1746 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.”
Eric Foner (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“—————————— to death's abode Prone lies the path, and facile is the road. To all who seek them open day and night, Pluto's black gates with broad access invite. But to recall the foot, retrace the way Up the dark steep, and re-assert the day— This is the labor, this the mighty feat, Achieved by few, the greatest of the great.”
Charles Symmons (1749–1826) said by 1826 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the beginning I urged upon the Government, in the strongest terms, the enlistment of negro troops, the former slaves of the rebels, not only as adding to the number and efficiency of our own forces, but chiefly on account of its depriving the enemy of just so much labor in their fields.”
David Hunter (1802–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You should be proud of your profession because there's less lying in journalism than in any other profession. They lie in education, they lie in politics, they lie in banking, they lie in labor; there's liars all over the place. Sports? Full of liars. And there are liars in journalism, but if there are liars, journalism will out them.”
Gay Talese (born 1932) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with David L. Ulin to - Gay Talese talks with David L. Ulin (October 15, 2010)
“As late as 1947, Mao insisted that his program corresponded to that of Sun. Until December of that year, Mao insisted that his ‘new democracy’ would protect the ‘bourgeoisie’ and ‘their industry and commerce.’ Because of China’s backwardness, he would continue to support capitalist development and ensure that both public and private, capital and labor, interests would benefit from the revolution.”
A. James Gregor (1929–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The inner labor, the inner values, and the inner difficulties and frictions are too often unknown to those who decide for a vocation, and they are unable to correlate those essential factors of the life-calling with all that nature by inheritance, and society by surroundings and training, have planted and developed in their minds.”
Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In fact, the drive against the Communists is aimed, above all, against the labor movement.”
Benjamin J. Davis Jr. (1903–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a woman with property needs the ballot, a woman who has nothing but her labor power needs two ballots.”
Gertrude Breslau Hunt (1869–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Generations of the past have been responsible for certain iniquitous practises, but it remained for the present century to shut the little ones up in factories, stunting physical and mental growth. Because of child labor today the future generation of men and women will suffer. Their career will bear the stamp of human brutality.”
Gertrude Breslau Hunt (1869–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is another plane of thought into which some have entered. It holds up a vision of a society redeemed by true democracy. It believes in a time when monopoly shall be no more, and labor and capital, no longer at war, shall cooperate to the wiping out of involuntary and undeserved poverty in an era of industrial equality and social peace.”
Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855–1925) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Basis of the Struggle", July 31, 1909, La Follette's Weekly Magazine. As quoted in Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909–2009 by Matthew Rothschild. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2…
“Evan after I had replaced my civil-libertarian posture with the rigors of Marxism-Leninism, Chinese style, Clark’s [Foreman] advice about the necessity of maintaining individual freedoms stuck in my mind and often forced me into open conflict with Progressive Labor. In many ways it was the need for independence, which Clark helped to instill in me, that led to my eventual break with Communism.”
Phillip Abbott Luce (1935–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The precarization of academic labor contributes to the demolition of radical leftism.”
Gabriel Rockhill (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give men shorter hours in which to labor, and you give them more time to study and learn why bread is so scarce while wheat is so plenty.”
Terence V. Powderly (1849–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paid off? Do you mean bribery?” “That is, umm, not an entirely pleasant word for it.” Dreschler’s doughy face took on a pained expression. “It is more in the nature of an advance payment to ensure the labor force will be satisfied with the negotiated wage schedules.”
Michael Swanwick (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The labor and delivery ward needed to have a false eye-lash policy”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come on, Amelia. We are not really British. We do not have to look down our noses at honest labor.”
John C. Wright (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Southern farm is a sort of joint stock concern, or social phalastery, in which the master furnishes the capital and skill, and the slaves the labor, and divide the profits, not according to each one’s in-put, but according to each one’s wants and necessities.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Socialism proposes to do away with free competition; to afford protection and support at all times to the laboring class; to bring about, at least, a qualified community of property, and to associated labor. All these purposes, slavery fully and perfectly attains.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No association, no efficient combination of labor can be effected till men give up their liberty of action and subject themselves to a common despotic head or ruler. This is slavery, and towards this socialism is moving.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We say allowance, not wages; for neither slaves nor free laborers get wages, in the popular sense of the term: that is, the employer or capitalist pays them for nothing of his own, but allows them a part, generally a very small part of the proceeds of their own labor.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he capitalists now live entirely by the proceeds of poor men’s labor, which capital enables them to command.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one abandons the idea that Western Europeans are rapacious and exploitative by nature, and that Africans, Asians, and other would-be immigrants are inevitably their victims, then the fundamental difference between colonization and labor migration ceases to be obvious.”
Christopher Caldwell (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The abolition of enslavement to interest on money signifies the only possible and conclusive liberation of productive labor from the hidden coercive money-powers.”
Gottfried Feder (1883–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All of our tax-legislation is and remains, so long as we do not have liberation from enslavement to interest, only a tribute-obligation to big capital, and not, as we would imagine, a voluntary sacrifice for the accomplishment of labor for the community.”
Gottfried Feder (1883–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liberation from enslavement to interest on money is the clear motto for the global revolution, for the liberation of productive labor from the chains of the supragovernmental money-powers.”
Gottfried Feder (1883–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In practice, Marxism has meant bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal prison camps and murderous forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and fraudulent show trials, outright mass murder and genocide.”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Killing Machine that is Marxism,” WorldNetDaily, December 15, 2004
“Trammeled as women have been, by might and custom, there are still many shining examples, which serve as beacon lights of what may be attained by genius, labor, energy, and perseverance combined.”
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[S]lavery was neither a backward nor a dying system in the 1850s. It was aggressive, dynamic, and mobile, and by pandering to the racial prejudices of a white republic starved for labor, it was perfectly capable of expansion.”
Allen C. Guelzo (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Communists sentenced my father's father to ten years hard labor for having a small American flag in his possession (by that time he had been a leader of the social democrats for some years). At his "trial" he was asked why he had the flag. Was he a spy? He replied that it represented freedom better than any other symbol he knew, and that he had a right to have it.”
Peter W. Schramm (1946–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From far-off India, the country of beauty, of achievements of the spirit, and of great thought, I send to you who are gathered in the name of the great labor and structure of the future—greetings of the heart! (1929)”
Helena Roerich (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Lord of Truth answered, “Maitri, manifested Councilor and Keeper. Thou who hast hidden thy wisdom from the crowd. Thou shalst assume My place as the Lord of Compassion and Labor. Maitreya shall lead the nations towards Light. And the arrow of achievement shall bestow the apple of Knowledge.”
Helena Roerich (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Messenger banished darkness and narrowness of the human crowd. He effaced contagion and raised up joyous labor. Hatred was bridled and the sword of the Messenger remained upon the wall. But all were silent and could not sing.”
Helena Roerich (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The law of fearlessness, the law of the renunciation of property, the law of the evaluation of labor, the law of the dignity of human personality, beyond castes and outer distinctions, the law of true knowledge, the law of love based upon self-knowledge, make of the covenants of the Teachers a continuous rainbow of the joy of humanity.”
Helena Roerich (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His pretended "saviors" ... place him under the yoke of labor - they force him to the utmost of his mental and physical abilities to produce new treasures, which however he is not entitled to own.”
Johann Most (1846–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the workers combine in order to obtain better wages, shorter hours of labor, or similar advantages, the money-bags immediately decry it as "conspiracy", which must be prevented. ... When the workers organize politically, it is denounced as resistance to the "divine" order of things.”
Johann Most (1846–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the bourgeoisie, by means of its capital, completely monopolizes all new inventions, every new machine, instead of shortening the hours of labor and enhancing the prosperity and happiness of all, causes, on the contrary, dismissal from employment for some, reduction of wages for others and an increased and intensified state of misery for the entire proletariat.”
Johann Most (1846–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although Lincoln was... a "moderate" Republican... he famously said, "Labor is superior to capital because it precedes capital"—nobody was wealthy until somebody made something—and was the first president both to use the word "strike" and to actually stop police and private armies from killing and beating strikers...”
Thom Hartmann (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source