Best Factory Workers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The downside is that your workers are working harder and having to concentrate more, and the accidents they have are just a little worse, just a little more frequent. The trouble is that you can’t go back, because now your competitors have done the same thing and the Thingumabob market has gotten a bit more aggressive, and the question comes down to this: how much further can you squeeze the margin without making your factory somewhere no one will work? And the truth is that it’s a tough environment for unskilled workers in your area and it can get pretty bad. Suddenly, because the company can’t survive any other way, soft-hearted Alf Fingermuffin is running the scariest, most dangerous factory in town. Or he’s out of busines...”

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Book:The Gone-Away World

Source: The Gone-Away World

“Can you go back to America and tell all your friends that I do NOT want to be rescued? All these Americans and Viet Kieus who come here thinking that they need to save us are so stupid. If you had to choose between working in a factory for twelve hours a day with bosses who don't let you rest and [who] look at you like they are raping you with their eyes, or working in a bar where you have a few drinks and sometimes spread you legs for a man, which would you choose? Why don't people go rescue factory workers? We are the ones who were not scared to leave factory work for sex work. We are smart hustlers [*nguoi chen lan*], not dumb, scared factory workers! —Trinh, twenty-four-year-old hostess in Lavender”

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Book:Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work

Source: Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work

“At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.”

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Author:Carl Rakosi

“I want to make a film about a factory worker.”

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Author:Richard Linklater

“When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.”

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Author:Max Stirner

“I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.”

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Author:Bill Shorten

“Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.”

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Book:In Defense of Politics

Source: In Defense of Politics

“My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.”

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Author:Brian Dennehy

“I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.”

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Author:Pamela Love

“You don't want to say somebody did a great job of acting. You want to say, "Where did he find that person? How did he get that factory worker to come out of the factory and be on camera?" You want to believe that person is real.”

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Author:Ronee Blakley

“The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.”

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Author:Christine Jennings

“Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a Mensa IQ and mathematical gifts, served as a bookkeeper and worked in a grocery store while pursuing her calling in music: playing piano and composing songs. Perhaps in a way, part of my drive was to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and dreams, but in my own way.”

“I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could even do damage. That is because managing creative teams and people is very different from managing the factory worker/foreman relationship.”

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Author:John Kao

“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.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.”

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Author:John Medina

“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.”

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Author:George Friedman

“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”

“Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.”

“The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941

“I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?”

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Author:Victor Borge

“And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.”

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Author:Olivier Martinez

“The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?”

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Book:Funeral In Berlin

Source: Funeral In Berlin

“Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.”

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Author:Emma Bonino

“Sure, they are the future of our world. Nike and Reebok need more factory workers every day.”

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Author:Zach Braff

“Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.”

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Author:Leonard Boswell

“One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.”

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Author:Fritz Sauckel

“War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.”

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Book:Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In

Source: Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In

“There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.”

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Author:Jay McInerney

“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 "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.”

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Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.”

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Author:Ray Davies