Workers Quotes - Page 38

• If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

  Max Lerner

  Mean, Decision, Unions

  "Lou Dobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2003.

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• The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Real, Heart

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• A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

  Richard Lamm

  Firsts, Poor, Obligation

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• Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  Walter Gropius

  Art, Character, Hands

  "The Bauhaus Proclamation April 1919" (1919)

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• Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

  Clara Zetkin

  Struggle, Class, Political

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• The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.

  Clara Zetkin

  Two, Competition, Males

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• Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.

  Andy Sawford

  Children, Focus, Helping

  "How Whitehall betrayed social workers" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

  Mark Zandi

  Holiday, Payroll Tax, Numbers

  "A 40 Percent Chance of Economic Doom". Interview with Elizabeth Weingarten, www.slate.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ... and inventors, the worst kind of jobholder! ... they stand condemned! ... the writer who doesn't pimp along, peacefully plagiarizing, who doesn't pump out the pop stuff, he's had it! ... everybody hates him!

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Hate, Men, Two

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• Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Horizon, Levels

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.69, Broadway Books

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• The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

  George Santayana

  Family, Race, Class

  George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason: Or, The Phases of Human Progress”, p.184, Prabhat Prakashan

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• To the worker, God himself lends aid.

  Euripides

  Work, Aids

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• As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Real, Angel, Home

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

  Diane Cilento

  Hard Work, Lines, Hard Worker

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• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  Vince Cable

  Cat, Cutting, Thinking

  "Vince Cable hits out at 'backward' Tory rightwingers" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

  Vince Cable

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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• It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Cities, America, Spain

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• American workers are first rate.

  Christopher Dodd

  Firsts, Rate, American Workers

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• I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

  David Dewhurst

  Texas, Support, Guests

  "Dewhurst in 2007 supported guest worker program ‘for those here today illegally’" by Peggy Fikac, blog.chron.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.

  Mark Dayton

  Years, Sick, Friendly

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• When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

  C. Wright Mills

  Jobs, Practice, White

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.17, Oxford University Press

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• To be a miracle worker you do not have to get a doctoral degree, become a minister, eat a particular food, or be able to meditate for long hours. All you need to do is to begin to see beauty in your life and those around you.

  Alan Cohen

  Long, Miracle, Degrees

  Alan Cohen (1987). “Healing of the Planet Earth: Personal Power and Planetary Transformation”, Dolphin Communications Co

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• The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Brother, Men, Done

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 117

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• Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Fall, Judging

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