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Quotes About Workers

The welfare state is the bankruptcy law for workers
~ Ha-Joon Chang
If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
~ Hannah Arendt
I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
~ Hans Frank
Samuel] Gompers saw as few others did that in America labor must shape itself to the contours of its society rather than try to remake society. He realized that Americans workers endorsed principles that they carried with them everywhere, even to work. Donning overalls wrought no magic transformation of the multifaceted work force into a single-minded body. To succeed, any labor movement would have to take the workers as they came, accept their principles, and weave them into a whole fabric.
~ Harold C. Livesay
And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
~ Harvey Pekar
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
~ Lech Walesa
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
~ Lech Walesa
Landlords are enemies of the workers," Hansu said.
~ Lee Min-jin
International unity of the workers is more important than the national.
~ lenin vladimir ii
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not at all our task to descend to the level of the "working masses."
~ lenin vladimir vi
If you're not going to move, then the least you can do is give me a hand. Don't you have workers for that? Once again, his voice belied his frustration with the dilemma he found himself in. Not all of us have an army of employees.
~ Jan Moran
Similarly, a few thousand workers dribbled in among tens or hundreds of thousands of residents make no appreciable balance either in sum or at any particular spot of any significance
~ Jane Jacobs
Misclassifying workers creates an unnecessary cost to Missouri taxpayers and puts Missouri businesses at an unfair disadvantage.
~ Mike Parson
The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.
~ David Lidington
To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
~ Samuel Gompers
I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.
~ James Gilmour
Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
~ Oswald Chambers
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation
~ Mother Jones
You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.
~ Jill Stein
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions
~ Swami Vivekananda
The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
~ Scott Adams
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.
~ David Weinberger
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
~ Abraham Lincoln
And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
~ Abraham Lincoln