Workers Quotes - Page 11

• The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Business, Work

  Wall Street Journal, 22 May 1995 See Peter 1

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• What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Leadership, War, Successful

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• We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

  Joe Hill

  Red Flags, Flying, Love Freedom

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• I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if I'm even a few minutes late. Such calls often come in when I'm happily writing or rearranging the furniture. The monochrones in my life are so organized, they have no trouble remembering to remind me to show up.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Writing, Phones

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• Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

  Alvin Adams

  Attitude, Government, Suspicion

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• I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

  Mother Jones

  Economic Inequality, Slavery, Limits

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• If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

  Joe Hill

  Ocean, Ties, Ships

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• A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.

  Joe Hill

  Song, Heart, Numbers

  Letter to the editor of Solidarity, November 29, 2014.

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• I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I live. I make little films with them and stuff when I'm not working. I thought, I'll pack it in then and go and do something I love doing, and get a regular job because I've got two kids and a mortgage.

  Stephen Graham

  Love, Jobs, Kids

  "Gizza job, CBeebies". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.

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• Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

  James Larkin

  Want, Method, Divides

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• It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

  Philip Levine

  Ironic, Detroit, Facts

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• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

  Daniel Webster

  Mind, Intellectual, Theatre

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.131, Beard Books

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• What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain­slack brain workers, nor heart­sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'

  William Morris

  Mean, Heart, Men

  "How I Became a Socialist". Justice newspaper, www.marxists.org. June 16, 1894.

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• Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.

  Paul Goodman

  Jobs, Party, Men

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• Blue collar workers cannot hire each other. White collar workers cannot hire each other. You have to have a businessman or a businesswomen, a business owner to hire you. And you cannot make the environment so unfriendly to them or so unprofitable or so burdensome that they go out of business,because if they go out of business, you are out of a job.

  Duncan Hunter

  Jobs, Blue, White

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• I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Pain, Thinking, Self

  "Duane Swierczynski dreams up a violent new cocktail for The Black Hood". Interview with Derrick Sanskrit, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2015.

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• It's very easy to make fun of George W.Bush, but that ain't going to do it. What we have to do is knock on doors and go into communities where there are people who disagree with us on certain issues.And we have to talk to them. They're our friends. They're our allies. They're our co-workers. We can't see them as enemies.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fun, Doors, Issues

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• I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.

  Willem Dafoe

  Thinking, Hollywood Life, People

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.

  Pamela Love

  Looks, Use, Vests

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.

  Nick Hanauer

  Confused, Government, People

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

  Nick Hanauer

  Class, Minimum Wage, Middle

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.

  Larry Wall

  Night, Naps, Up Early

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Secret, Mind, Method

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.372, Courier Corporation

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• No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Years, Civilization, Effort

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.210, Best Books on

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• We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears and feeling of powerlessness, their privileges and possessions, and join us as active participants and co-workers for peace.

  Petra Kelly

  Home, People, Feelings

  Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.74, South End Press

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