Workers Quotes
1307 quotes by 922 authors
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In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or…
— Wendell Berry
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At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied…
— Paul Frolich
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When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry…
— Irene Fernandez
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The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service.…
— Billy Graham
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Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
— Vladimir Lenin
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It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole…
— Alexandra Kollontai
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Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end of the accursed…
— Grigory Zinoviev
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Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.
— Nadezhda Krupskaya
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The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk…
— John William Strutt
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Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less…
— Barack Obama
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Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
— Hal Draper
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We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.
— Eugene V. Debs
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Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
— Jacques Delors
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People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a job…
— Paul Krugman
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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising…
— Paul Krugman
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Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the…
— Paul Krugman
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There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
— Robert Reich
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Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers…
— Jose Antonio Vargas
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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
— Confucius
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