Workers Quotes · Page 8

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

— Karl Marx

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

— Ray Kurzweil

In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.

— Fred Hampton

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.

— Peter Drucker

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

— Mercedes McCambridge

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

— Alan Sugar

The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work.

— Lettie Cowman

It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker…

— Joan Robinson

“I have had so many negative interactions with electrical utility workers that I now avoid interacting with them!”

— Steven Magee

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

— Janet Yellen

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

— Fred Brooks

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was…

— Paul McCartney

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and…

— Martin Fleischmann

Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

— David Rolf

The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others.

— Chico Xavier

Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a…

— Cornel West

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or…

— Bill Shorten

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly.…

— Alice Rivlin

[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking…

— Paul Krugman

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker…

— Marcy Kaptur

When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike…

— Cesar Chavez

From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At…

— Jan Schakowsky

Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and…

— Herbert Hoover

The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the…

— John Seely Brown

When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he…

— Christopher Hitchens

Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes…

— Gar Alperovitz

A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers - not punish…

— Bob Goodlatte

Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great…

— Elizabeth Warren

People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student…

— Bernie Sanders

Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using…

— Rush Limbaugh

My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin…

— John Harvey Kellogg

Look, we have a very lousy system for retraining workers that get disrupted.

— John Kasich

Workers are basically supervisors of machines.

— David Autor

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I've proven myself a champion of workers' rights, particularly teachers.

— Nina Turner

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

— Julia Serano

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

— Karl Marx

Organized workers are good for our economy. There's no denying that.

— Marty Walsh

Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.

— Martin Haberman