Labourers Quotes
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The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
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...where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive Labourers of Adam Smith?...
thomas malthus— Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section IX, p. 406
Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak; The delight of old and young, Though I speak without a tongue. Nought but one thing can confound me, Many voices joining round me, Then I fret, and rave, and gabble, Like the Labourers of Babel.
jonathan swift— Jonathan Swift, An Echo. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
If all the Labourers in aVillage breed up several Sons to the same work there will be too many Labourers to cultivate the Lands belonging to theVillage, and the surplus Adults must go to seek a livelihood elsewhere, which they generally do in Cities.
Richard Cantillon— 1730-4 Essay on the Nature of Trade.
Humanity has not yet evolved and we do not as yet know a type of government superior to and better than the Soviets of Workers’, Agricultural Labourers’, Peasants’, and Soldiers’ Deputies.
— Collected Works, Vol. 24, pp. 38–41
Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of Labourers.
bhimrao ramji ambedkar— Quoted in the book, The Annihilation of Caste [[2]]
The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the Labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
David Ricardo— Original Preface, p. 1
LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the Labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
David Ricardo— Chapter V, On Wages, p. 52
But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of Labourers compared with the demand.
David Ricardo— Chapter XVI, Taxes on Wages, p. 141
Christ, addressing Himself to the Labourers of His time, proclaimed for the first time the worthiness both in material and a spiritual sense of all work.
roll, eric, baron roll of ipsden— Chapter I, The Beginnings, p. 41 ( See also.. 1 Corinthians 3 - 9.. KJV )
The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive Labourers, or the productive powers of those Labourers who had before been employed.
Adam Smith— Chapter III, p. 377
Let but faithful Labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.
james hudson taylor— (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 58.)
"a class of Labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increase capital . These Labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market."
karl marx— Section 1, paragraph 30, lines 3-8
But if the Labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
karl marx— Vol. I, Ch. 24, Section 4, pg.657
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the Labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth Labourers into his harvest.
— Jesus, in Matthew 9:37 - 38.
...where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive Labourers of Adam Smith?...
— Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section IX, p. 406
The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour , machinery , and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the Labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
— David Ricardo (1821) The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation Original Preface, p. 1
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the Labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth Labourers into his harvest.
— 9:37–38 (KJV).
The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the Labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
David Ricardo— Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)
