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“I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor countries). This is because they are the source of the profits which make capitalism what it is. They can shut the system down, and at the same time they possess the unique knowledge needed to make it work in everyone's interests.”

Believe Stills Country Force Interest Poor Source Needed Unique Capitalism Down And Workers Profit Organize Peasants I Still Believe Poor Countries

Author:Michael Yates

“Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?”

People Enough Helping Young Movement Youth Revolution Workers Soon Enough

Author:Michael Yates

“National chauvinism is a very tough nut to crack, since a vast propaganda network is in place to keep the workers whipped up into a patriotic frenzy. Maybe this will change, but I doubt it unless it is addressed.”

Doubt Tough Workers Propaganda Patriotic Cracks Nuts Frenzy Chauvinism

Author:Michael Yates

“You can't take the view of some of the sectarian parties that hard issues can't be confronted when dealing with workers. If you don't confront these issues, what will ever change?”

Ifs Hard Views Party Issues Workers

Author:Michael Yates

“You have to consider all workers as your equals and speak matter of factly about things. People do want to understand things and respect you if you know what they do not know. And you have to respect what they know that you do not.”

People Ifs Knows Want Matter Speak Workers Matter Of Fact

Author:Michael Yates

“As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and services or by promoting worker ownership - not only have immediate practical benefits but provide the necessary preconditions for the growth and development of a renewed culture of sustainable democracy that can serve as the basis for still further transformations at larger scales.”

“Worker ownership is only one form of democratizing ownership.”

Form Workers Ownership

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I'm an advocate of further democratization of the workplace, we also need to be building larger structures.”

Knows Needs Sometimes Attitude Company Study Building Circumstances Behavior Structure Workers Conservative Capitalist Schemes Socialist Workplace Floating Replicate Democratization

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“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.”

Two War Century Gun Army Workers Encounters Bombs Pilots Factories 20th Century Factory 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.”

“Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.”

“What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president? Only great capital can do that. That is why we say that bourgeois democracy has been evolving in the last years into dollar democracy, this is not the democracy of sovereignty, and only the people can determine that.”

“In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.”

“I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.”

Knows Men Numbers Advantage Plant Workers Exploitation Oppressed American Workers

Author:Che Guevara

“We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year.”

Years Next Effort Plant Workers Next Year Time Passes

Author:Che Guevara

“Our infrastructure of bridges, roads and ports has been given a D-level rating by many civil engineer societies. The government should shift some money from the Defense budget and hire companies to fix our infrastructure. As for non-construction workers, we need to do job retraining in those growing areas where more skilled workers will be needed.”

“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”

“I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible in school by my son, I was fired from my job as a supervisor in the city public welfare department. And I was unable to find another one. So my income was completely cut off.”

Years School Jobs Reading Social Hours Cities Cases Study Cutting Son Workers Income Welfare Department My Son Social Worker Psychiatric Supervisors Public Welfare

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“A good leader for instance is somebody like Nelson Mandela. I do not have seen such people coming every generation, maybe every ten generations, every hundred generations. People who are miracle workers.”

People Leader Generations Ten Hundred Miracle Workers Instance Nelson Good Leader Miracle Worker

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through the horror of government programs, which is essentially giving it to social workers who live in Bethesda so they can drive their minivans and vote Democratic. Give them the money, so that they go and talk to the worker who is washing dishes, and they say, "Well, we want to help you, you see." And it would be better to help them by taking the money from that minivan-driving social worker and giving it directly to the guy who is really working hard by washing dishes.”

“We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.”

Ifs Want Should Faces Issues Effects Labor Should Have Absolutes Unions Workers Borders Guests Depressing Wages Cheap Labor

Author:Mark Helprin

“A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents.”

“We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.”

Needs Fighting Levels Fields Benefits Trade Workers Farmers Flourishing Free Trade Playing Fields American Workers Protectionism Level Playing Field

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Literally as I walk into the studio I say, "God, hollow me of all my junk. Hollow me of my insecurity, my pride and my doubt. Make me hollow enough that you can breathe something through me that would turn eyes to you." And whether that's a song or a conversation you're going to have with a co-worker, or whatever you're facing, that's for everybody.”

Enough Eye Song Turns Walks Doubt Pride Conversation Workers Studios Breathe Insecurity Hollow Junk Co Worker

Author:TobyMac

“I feel like we're in a truly revolutionary period, not just in terms of practical activities to overthrow regimes in the Middle East or Occupy but also in terms of radical redefinitions. I feel like workers are a big part of it, but there's so much more going on.”

Feels Bigs Term Middle Periods Activity Workers East Practicals Radical Revolutionary Regimes Middle East

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“What about precarious labor? It's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. They were much more efficient when they had loyalty to their workers and people were allowed to be creative and contribute - you know that what precarious labor does is that it's the best weapon ever made to depoliticize labor. They're always putting the political in front of the economic.”

People Knows Doe Made Form Political Creative Economic Fronts Weapons Labor Workers Loyalty Efficient Be Creative Precarious

Author:David Graeber

“I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.”

Used Streets Workers Construction Used To Love Construction Workers

Author:Eartha Kitt

“Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.”

Want Political Lying Economic Workers Equality Fraud Hype Pretense Pretension Political Freedom Economic Equality

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.”

People Time Literature Democracy Workers Divides Idleness Provision Loafers

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.”

Matter Form Death Social Millions Position Doctors Workers Things To Do Social Worker Slums Social Service

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”

Knows May Stills Ideas Masters Tools Workers Meant To Be Users Hammers

Author:Milan Kundera

“A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.”

Jobs Remains Workers Treasure Description Skilled Workers

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.”

Hours Differences Levels Numbers Attitude Quality Train Workers Managers Working It Flexibility Quality Work

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.”

Thinking Hard Pressure Workers Reputation Reconstruction Hard Worker

Author:Charles Kuralt

“I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.”

Littles Eye Kids Mother Father Literature Social Saws Workers Insight His Eyes Social Worker

Author:Charles Kuralt

“The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.”

Ifs Industry Workers Profit Employers Good Will Carrying On Acquiescence

Author:James Larkin

“A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.”

Degrees Gains Workers Satisfaction Mediums Repeats Mutual Arrangements Employers

Author:James Larkin

“The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.”

Development Citizens Historical Workers Producers Consumers Transformed Clients

Book:The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.”

Government Workers Appreciation Rap Government Work Government Workers

Author:Matthew Lesko

“I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.”

Unions Workers Agriculture Tobacco Carolina North Carolina Organizer

Author:Al Lewis

“Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.”

“Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.”

Has Beens Conflict Labor Institutions Workers Usa Denied

Author:John L. Lewis

“The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.”

Political Nations Social Waiting Rights Economic Industry Fairs Tired Workers Corporate Treatment Grants Agony Alleviate Political Rights Tired Of Waiting

Author:John L. Lewis

“My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.”

Home Mother Wife Daughter Workers Warm My Wife Boss My Daughter Very Happy

Author:Jet Li

“Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.”

Jobs Girl Perspective Tough Workers Modeling Rivals Other Girl Co Worker

Author:Adriana Lima

“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”

“But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.”

Art Actors Workers Call Me Entertainers Doing Me

Author:Javier Bardem

“The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.”

Hands Social Grows Leadership Destiny Democracy Movement Mass Determination Stronger Workers Enlightened Social Democracy

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.”

Democracy Murder Workers International Torture Extras Reports Mexico Mexican Judicial Amnesty Exporting Amnesty International

Author:Stephen F. Lynch

“I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.”

Real Shows Found Smart Workers Jew Being Real Show Business Ghouls

Author:Loretta Lynn

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