Factories Quotes - Page 31

• The law in the United States, in every jurisdiction until about 1876, was that if a factory put smoke into the air, even one day a year, and it got onto a neighbor's property, the neighbor had the right to enjoin to close down the factory, and the courts had no choice but to do that.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Air, Years, Law

  "Crimes Against Nature". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2004.

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• Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to the planet. From a utilitarian point of view, that's twice as bad.

  Peter Singer

  Views, Needs, Damage

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• I grew up in a steel town of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, and when I announced for president, I announced from the factory floor. When I talk about making America the number one manufacturer again in the world, it's not just talk. When I talk about having the opportunity for people to rise again, it's not just because it polls well.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Numbers, America

  CNBC Undercard GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.

  H. L. Mencken

  Half, Would Be, Tomorrow

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• There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

  Signe Baumane

  Art, Discovery, Mass

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory.

  Dave Attell

  Baby, Mean, Eight

  Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2009.

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• If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep.

  John Robbins

  Animal, People, Risk

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• What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

  Kristen Stewart

  New York, Fun, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Night, Skeletons, Skins

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• If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Men, World

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

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• An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Air, Civilization, Elements

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.215, 谷月社

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• You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.

  Paul Zindel

  Sex, Quality, Pairs

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• A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Jobs, Waiting, Peaceful

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• From 16 to 21 when I was self sufficient and working in factories. I packed batteries, boxes, and make-up with heroin addicts. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet.

  Jay Kay

  Self, Two, Feet

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.

  Suzanne Shaw

  School, Cutting, Hands

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Europe has discarded its children. A bit triumphantly. I remember that when I was studying in one country the clinics that did abortions then prepared everything to send it to cosmetic factories. Makeup made with the blood of innocents. And this was something to brag about, because it was progressive.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Children, Makeup

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• I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Industrialization

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.44

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• Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

  Mary Oliver

  Writing, Heart, Skills

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  Quality, Tools, Fundamentals

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• I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Thinking, Chocolate

  "Kanye West: 9 Outrageous Quotes From This Week's Radio Interviews " by Hilary Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 27, 2013.

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• If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

  George Lopez

  Laughing, Machines, Limbs

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• Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.

  Michael Denton

  Men, Cells, Atoms

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• In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Wall, Hard Work

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• There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

  John Hersey

  Book, Age, Tin

  Hiroshima ch. 1 (1946)

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• All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

  Alexander Trocchi

  Art, Spring, Inspiration

  Alexander Trocchi (1992). “Cain's Book”, p.224, Grove Press

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