Working Man Quotes

52 quotes by 46 authors

We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill,… — Chris Hedges
Iâ€™ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses… — Bill Shankly
There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps Iâ€™m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing… — Saul Bass
What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for… — David F. Houston
Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working. — Bridget Moynahan
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath. — Gaston Bachelard
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. — Lloyd Alexander
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more… — Abraham Lincoln
TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of… — Ambrose Bierce
We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce,… — Beyonce Knowles
The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got — Karl Marx
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow. — Mother Jones
The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply… — Lou Dobbs
The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The… — Colin Hay
I've had several working-man songs that I like. — Alan Jackson
For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way… — Kathryn Minshew
This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be. — Merle Haggard
I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows. — Van Morrison

Who Wrote These Working Man Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 52 Working Man Quotes, led by these top contributors: