Working Man Quotes

52 Working Man quotes by 46 unique authors

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
Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz! — Theophilus London
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,… — George Bernard Shaw
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist.… — Karl Marx
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. — Benjamin Franklin
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of… — Ray Davies
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and… — Marilyn Monroe
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of… — William Morris
I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working… — Chazz Palminteri
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more… — Margaret Sanger
As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across… — Rick Santorum

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