Labor Force Quotes

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.

Capital is dead labor, that vampire like, only lives by sucking living labor.

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

The real wealth of a nation resides in its farms and factories and the people who man them.

While we have land to labor, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.

We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

Such forms of wealth as gold, silver, precious stones are only minerals and products having an exchange value. It is social effort, the search for profit and the use of tools that cause the increase or decrease of the quantity of precious metals in circulation and hence, the real wealth of a King

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

Women constitute a cheap labor force and above all a submissive one that only in the rarest of cases dares to kick against the thorns of capitalist exploitation, the capitalists multiply the possibilities of women’s work in industry. As a result of all this, the proletarian woman has achieved her independence. But verily, the price was very high and for the moment they have gained very little.

Trade is critical to us all - it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

America—not Britain—has a use for the telephone. Here we have a superabundance of messengers, errand boys, and things of that kind.

We must, by every reasonable means, import our people, not in one branch of industry, not merely as farmers, as tillers of the soil, but we must bring out of every kind of industry, must develop the minds of the people and their energies.

And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.

Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.

Labor is the source of all wealth, and of all civilization; and since it is only through society that generally productive labor is possible, the whole product of labor, where there is a general obligation to work, belongs to society, - that is, to all its members, by equal right, to each according to his reasonable needs.

What would happen if no cotton was furnished for three years? …. You dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can't do that.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

It is important to launch a mass and society-wide struggle to drastically increase the production of consumer goods.