Workers Quotes - Page 12

• All anarchists believe in worker's control, in the sense of individuals deciding what work they do, how they work, and who they work with. This follows logically from the anarchist belief that nobody should be subject to a boss.

  Donald Rooum

  Believe, Boss, Belief

  "What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction". Book by Donald Rooum, 1992.

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• The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Blessed, Wine, Blessing

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

  Napoleon Hill

  Selfish, May, Matter

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Your Magic Power to be Rich!”, p.351, Penguin

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• Time magazine announced its person of the year. It's health workers who treat Ebola. That's a person of the year. Time magazine told the health workers, 'No need to pick up your award, we'll mail it to you.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Ebola, Years, Awards

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• Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Spiritual, Expression, Doe

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• One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness of the men who chiefly prosper under it; another for its mere confusion and noise; another for its false values; it was until recently most fiercely attacked for its impoverishment of the workers, its margin of unemployment and the rest - indeed so fiercely that it was compelled to seek palliatives for the evil. With a mass of men it was attacked from a vague but strong sense of injustice; it allowed a few rich to exploit mankind.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Strong, Men, Evil

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• One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing... Trade unions in this country should... consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now... Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.

  Jacob K. Javits

  Wisdom, Country, Jobs

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• On the basis of his work each person is fully entitled to consider himself a part owner of the great workbench at which he is working with everyone else. A way toward that goal could be found by associating labor with the ownership of capital joint ownership of the means of work, sharing by the workers in the management and/or profits of businesses, so-called shareholding by labor, etc.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Goal, Politics

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• It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Practice, Politics

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• When God helps all the workers for His world,
  The singers shall have help of Him, not last.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  World, Singers, Lasts

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.358

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• Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Essence, Sacred

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.113

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• The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Lying, Hard Work, Toil

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• Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  Mind, Conviction, Command

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• You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won't. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It's much better for an American worker to compete against a regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.

  Ezra Klein

  Country, Usa, Immigration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially with small to medium sized companies. There's increasing evidence that a more flexible management style, where responsibility is distributed up and down the line, is what works best. And that kind of management style is one that will allow individual workers more flexibility - men and women.

  Betty Friedan

  Responsibility, Men, Command And Control

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Car, Soul

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• Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated. ... Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Pain, Mean, Dark

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• It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.

  John Richard Reid

  Holiday, Should Have, People

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• Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

  J. G. Holland

  Work, Men, World

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.92

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• President Bush says in the last month he has created 300,000 new jobs. Yeah, they're called Kerry campaign workers.

  Craig Kilborn

  Jobs, New Job, President

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• Whether youre working in corporate America or youre a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - were all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When Psych ends, I will be looking for another job.

  Dule Hill

  Teacher, Jobs, Psych

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• Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Numbers, People, Dollars

  "3 Business Myths People Should Stop Believing" by Fran Tarkenton, www.businessinsider.com. January 14, 2015.

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• I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

  Hugh Masekela

  Struggle, Community, March

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• If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.

  Max Heindel

  Loss, Law, Privilege

  Max Heindel (2016). “Simplified Scientific Astrology”, p.11, Max Heindel

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• Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

  Michael Franti

  People, Justice, Musical

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