Attention Quote by Jay McInerney

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

— Fritz Todt

“The very same bourgeois mentality which extols the manufacturing division of labour, the life-long annexation of the worker to a partial operation, and the…

— Karl Marx

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

— Adolf Hitler

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward…

— David Riesman

T is ... pathetic to observe thecomplete lack of imagination on the part of certain employers and men and women of the upper-incomelevels, equally…

— Anonymous

“Most—but not all—of the writers I knew then were young men who cherished their independence, were unconcerned about job security, and were serious about…

— Sterling Lord

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs…

— Richard Flanagan

“Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t compete in…

— Franklin Foer

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day…

— Timothy Egan

“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having…

— Nicholas Mosley

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

— George Ade

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even…

— George Packer