“Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to bring a bunch of coal jobs back and a bunch of factory jobs back in this global economy. Period. Because you can't. It's not going to happen.” HappensAbleJobsEconomyFailingTrumpPeriodsMoonBunchFactoriesCoalGlobal Economy Author:Van Jones
“If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.” PeopleIfsWayWellsMayTwoJobsFightingOpportunityBlackWhiteRaceGroupsKingsEqualAddInstanceBlack PeopleFactoriesCompetingLutherJob Opportunities Author:Malcolm X
“As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, you have a situation where the blacks are constantly begging the whites can they use this or can they use that. That's not any kind of equality of opportunity, nor does it lend toward one's dignity.” KindLongDoeUseHandsSchoolOpportunitySituationDignityFactoriesHousingBeggingSchool SystemEquality Of Opportunity Author:Malcolm X
“The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.” PeopleIfsWayWellsTwoJobsOpportunityBlackWhiteEqualBlack PeopleFactoriesJob Opportunities Author:Malcolm X
“Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," played opposite Richard Pryor in "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy" and portrayed the candy-maker in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory."” MadeFilmYoungCrazyOppositesProducersSilverChocolateMakersFactoriesGenesCandyBrooksStreaksBlazingDebutSaddlesWilderStir Crazy Author:Terry Gross
“Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that.” FirstsFoundStrikesOrganizedActivistFactoriesImpressedLeonTrotskyToledo Author:Nat Hentoff
“Because the 1979 strike against U.S. Steel in Youngstown, Ohio was an occupation - and actually, that's a model that really should be pursued now.They went on from striking to trying to have the workforce and the communities take over the abandoned factories that U.S. Steel was dismantling.” ShouldTryingCommunityModelsStrikesOccupationAbandonedFactoriesSteelPursuedOhioWorkforce Author:Noam Chomsky
“I mean the reason the sit-down strikes struck such fear in the hearts of management was that they knew that a sit-down strike was just one step short of taking over the factory.” HeartMeanReasonStepsManagementStrikesJust OneFactories Author:Noam Chomsky
“The question for so many is the quality of work, the future of work under globalism and de-industrialization. A typical example is a person who had a good factory job making 80,000 dollars, with health insurance, who was able to send his kids possibly to college and then he or she suddenly loses that job because the factory closed down. And now that same person is bagging groceries at Walmart and making $35,000.” PersonsKidsAbleJobsLosesQualityExampleCollegeDown AndDollarsFactoriesTypicalGroceriesIndustrializationGlobalismWalmartQuality Work Author:David Remnick
“There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything - a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don't ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, "Take over your factories."” PeopleIfsGivingRealSelfDoneGuySoundAnswersOne ThingCrazyGoes OnLogicFaultsInternalsOver YouSensibleFactoriesRidiculeConvincingGrievanceCoherenceSelf Confident Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all kinds of things like popular takeovers, government intervention, and worker takeovers of factories. Business propagated a tremendous propaganda offensive. The scale surprised me when I read the scholarship - it's enormous, and it's been very effective. There were two major targets: one is unions, the other is democracy.” WorldKindTwoWarStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyMajorsUnionsWorkersPopulationScalesEnormousAll KindsPropagandaWar Of The WorldsTargetFactoriesOffensiveInterventionScholarshipSecond World WarTakeoversGovernment Intervention Author:Noam Chomsky
“An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.” YoungPayStruggleEconomicCollegeMomMessagesWorkersDebtLos AngelesFactoriesPlatformsMinimumYoung WomenMinimum WageSingle MomBuffaloFactory Workers Author:Charles Schumer
“It's a big problem in South Africa up to this day: many people want to open factories, they want to invest, but then they discover that they don't have the skilled people to employ.” PeopleWantProblemBigsSouthThis DayFactoriesSouth AfricaBig Problems Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I remember I used to go to The Laugh Factory and just goof off onstage, and then I'd see Dane Cook. He did a bit about his Mom making the bed in the summertime when he was a kid. He just said "Vroom!" and threw the sheet up in the air and the sheet would just stay over the bed for like a minute and a half. All he had were his arms out, but I could see the sheet. And he didn't do anything. He just kept it there. And I went, "I have to write more."” WritingSaidKidsRememberUsedBitsHalfLaughingAirMinutesArmsMomBedCooksFactoriesSheetsSummertimeUp In The AirGoofs Author:Jay Mohr
“The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.” TodayRichMediaRoundsRadioCorporateClockPropagandaEmpiresFactoriesTalk Radio Author:Bill Moyers
“I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams, because of Allen Ginsberg having lived there. And I went to the Great Falls and sat really in the exact same spot as Adam Driver does as Paterson. And I walked around the factory buildings, and I was rereading - I was reading at the time the epic length poem "Paterson" by Williams.” YearsKindDoeFallReadingBuildingYears AgoSpotsSatLengthDriversAdamFactoriesEpicGinsbergRereading Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched my capacity to abstract intellectually. The experience of being with workers, my encounters with management and my recognition of its foibles, my personal encounters with American industrial efficiency, my military experience - all of these things packaged together have greatly enriched my reading and my understanding, and I've written with what I hope is a reasonable fluency of style that is much more expressive than the academic stuff.” ThinkingTogetherReadingStuffUnderstandingWrittenLandMilitaryStyleCapacityManagementWorkersRecognitionAbstractEncountersReasonableFactoriesAcademicEfficiencyExpressiveFoiblesFluencyMilitary Experience Author:Murray Bookchin
“As for the workers' movement, I find that I reach workers more easily as neighbors than I do standing outside the factory despairingly giving out a leaflet telling them to take over, say the Ford plant.” GivingMovementStandingPlantWorkersNeighborFactoriesStanding Out Author:Murray Bookchin
“The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.” SometimesStatesHandsCertainOrderTermWealthCasesLandRemainsMajorityPlantSocialismFactoriesOwnershipPrecise Author:Joseph Stalin
“Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.” MeanHas BeensCountryLandPlantOur CountrySovietFactoriesOwnershipSocialistReplacedTransportationMeans Of Transportation Author:Joseph Stalin
“Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.” MeanForceCommonLandCapitalismRemainsPlantSocialismGermanyEtcItalianFascismSovietFactoriesOwnershipTransportationMeans Of Transportation Author:Joseph Stalin
“There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an angry speech or trying to isolate the press and the first amendment. Sooner or later, the Donald Trump show, which is a projection of strength and authority, will have to deliver to his voters. And if he doesn't, in very real terms, if he can't supersede a situation where a president cut the unemployment rate in half, if he can't do better, if he can't open factories and all the rest that he's promised, then I think he's in trouble.” IfsThinkingTryingFirstsRealShowsProblemPresidentTermHalfSituationCuttingTroubleTrumpSpeechAuthorityAngryPressesRatePhonesPainfulVotersFactoriesAmendmentsSooner Or LaterUnemploymentGlobalizationProjectionFirst AmendmentTweetPhone CallsIndustrializationUnemployment Rate Author:David Remnick
“A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.” JobsLinesMinutesWorkersBoredFactoriesAssemblyAssembly LineFactory Workers Author:John Medina
“I'm always concerned about marketing or commercial philosophies. I can't feel good about having my name on a bottle of perfume that comes from a factory making perfume with all the same ingredients as every other perfume. I can't feel good about a factory overseas polluting the air for something with my name on it. I'm okay with music - because it's digital or a CD. My music is my emotion in a bottle. But how is a perfume supposed to reflect me? How is a sweatshirt supposed to represent me?” FeelsI CanPhilosophyNamesEmotionAirMusic IsConcernedOkayMarketingFeel GoodDigitalIngredientsBottlesFactoriesPerfumeCdsSweatshirts Author:Nelly Furtado
“The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling drama in their lives that they used to get from the office and the factory, and they're no longer there. What happens if you have everything in the hands of the state, particularly in the line of an authoritarian state, they just give people drugs to keep them doped up, to keep them passive.” PeopleIfsGivingStatesHandsHappensUsedLinesDealsDramaDrugOfficeIncomeFactoriesCompellingPassive Author:Irvine Welsh
“I mean, you take a look at this, it's one way. [Mexicans] get the jobs, they get the factories, they get the cash, and all we get - we get illegal immigration and we get drugs.” WayLooksMeanJobsDrugImmigrationOne WayIllegalCashFactoriesIllegal Immigration Author:Donald Trump
“Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century, when industrialization was just beginning: gray, brown and smoky. Color didn't exist. Today, instead, most everything is colored. The pipe running from the basement to the 12th floor is green because it carries steam. The one carrying electricity is red, and that with water is purple. Also, plastic colors have filled our homes, even revolutionized our taste. Pop art grew out of that and was possible because of this change in taste.” ThinkingArtHomeRealityRunningTodayWaterCenturyColorGrewBecomingTasteRedGreenFilledPopsBrownCarrieGrayFactoriesPlasticElectricityPurplePipeSteam19th CenturyBecoming MoreBasementsPop ArtIndustrialization Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go back far enough it meant basically control of production by producers, elimination of wage labor, democratization of all spheres of life; production, commerce, education, media, workers control of factories, community control of communities, and so on. That was socialism once. But it hasn't meant that for a hundred years. Socialism meant something different.” IfsYearsMeanDifferentEnoughPoliticalUsedLostTermCommunityMediaHundredLaborWorkersProductionsSocialismProducersSpheresFactoriesCommerceDiscourseEliminationDemocratizationPolitical Discourse Author:Noam Chomsky
“The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.” PeopleIfsWalksLeaderEmpathySmellFactoriesGreat LeaderGood Sense Author:Colin Powell
“Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we control, with people that we listen to, with real economies, not Wall Street economies, but rather factories and farmers. And this goes against this unregulated globalization, wild, savage globalization.” PeopleRealNationsEconomyStreetsWallDebateIdeologyBordersFarmersFactoriesSavagesGlobalizationConstraints Author:Marine Le Pen
“By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.” TwoWarCenturyGunArmyWorkersEncountersBombsPilotsFactories20th CenturyFactory Workers Author:George Friedman
“The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb, we sent a thousand planes and, yes, we took out the factory sometimes, but we also took out the city. It reached the point where we wanted more efficient ways to destroy a city. The result was nuclear weapons.” WorldWayWarSometimesWantedNightResultsCitiesThousandWeaponsWorkersBritishNuclearPlanesAwakeWar Of The WorldsBombsWorld War IiFactoriesEfficientWorld War INuclear WeaponsDroppingAwake At Night Author:George Friedman
“We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Since I think agriculture will come back closer to the center of life, I think there will be many vocational opportunities there - especially with the so-called 'value-added' activities associated with food production. That's a windy way to say more local wine and cheese-makers - and probably fewer giant factories producing cheez doodles and Pepsi Cola.” ThinkingWayMayDoeMightLawValuesOpportunityJusticeActivityWineProductionsProfessionLawyerLocalsGiantsMakersFactoriesFewerCheeseAgricultureWindyPepsiFood ProductionWine And Cheese Author:James Howard Kunstler
“The size of the U.S. middle class has been shrinking. Wages have been stagnant. We don't have those factory jobs that paid a living wage and enabled a family to have a home where the wife did not have to work. But we sent our factories abroad and there is no likelihood of getting them back. Equally worrisome is that some managerial jobs and professional jobs (such as lawyers) which support middle class life are threatened by automation.” Has BeensHomeJobsClassSupportWifeMiddlePaidSizeLawyerMiddle ClassFactoriesThreatenedWagesStagnantLikelihoodShrinkingAutomationLiving WageMiddle Class Life Author:Philip Kotler
“Robots equipped with software can be designed to do repetitive jobs. All that you need in a factory is a set of dials, an expert, and a dog to keep the expert awake. We will be moving shortly to the next stage to robots with artificial intelligence who can "think."” ThinkingNeedsJobsMovingNextStageDogAwakeExpertsArtificial IntelligenceSoftwareFactoriesArtificialRobotsRepetitive Author:Philip Kotler
“Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling works, printing plants, schools, theaters-everything you could conceivably think of that has nothing to do with religion, they are moving into big. They're even coming in as stockholders in the big oil companies, and the Bank of America is almost entirely owned by the Catholic Church.” ThinkingBigsSchoolAmericaMovingChurchWealthCompanyTelevisionAreasTheaterCatholicWinePlantOilChainsGasHotelStationsFarmsFactoriesSteelResortsCatholic ChurchPrintingMillsSupermarketsWarehouseOil CompaniesGas StationsBig Oil Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.” FirstsJobsDadMy DadStoresDustRestaurantsFactoriesDishesRoofGroceriesWashingSweepingGrocery StoresWashing DishesShingles Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.” SchoolRaceFactoriesRatsExamRat Race Author:Johann Lamont
“You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.” PeopleKnowsWantProcessMastersFactorsFactoriesPuppetsPuppet Master Author:Annie Lennox
“I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.” LittlesWantedCoursesFoundEnvironmentIntellectualUniversityHallsFactoriesPlatoSausageMain Course Author:Bjorn Lomborg
“I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.” CitiesIndustryTownsFactories Author:David Lynch
“I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.” EuropeMissionsOilStringsTargetPrimeCombatFactoriesHittingYardsTanksFlewAircraftRailwayRefinery Author:George McGovern
“The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.” ProductsWeaponsMassBuiltDestructionResponsibleGlobal WarmingFactoriesMeltingWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionChrysler Author:Michael Moore
“I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.” ThinkingLongTermEuropeLong TermFactoriesAsiaTesla Author:Elon Musk
“My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.” MomDadOfficeMy DadMy MomFactoriesEncyclopedia Author:Mike Myers
“I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.” AnimalTortureVegetarianFactoriesFarmingFactory FarmingSlaughterhousesInhumane Author:Kevin Nealon
“I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.” IfsThinkingLooksHappensAnimalEatingCrueltyMeatFarmsFactoriesSlaughterhousesEating Meat Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.” PeopleIfsAmericaDesireAnimalNumbersFiveImpossibleBirdPercentRaisesRaisedRangeMeatEggsFarmsMilkFactoriesSheerNinetyHumane Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.” MadeTwoTodayThreeAnimalFleshImprovementFarmsFactoriesHumaneRotten Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.” ChildrenWarYoungSocialPoorRaceClassNovelTerribleConsequenceHatredSlaveWorkersInjusticeCivil WarTragicImmigrantsDivisionFactoriesExploitationMillsYoung ChildrenAftermathSocial InjusticeImmigrant Workers Author:Joyce Carol Oates