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“I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase.”

Want Opportunity Increase Workers Income Wages American Workers

“Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.”

“Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”

May Helping Interest Work Source Elements Aspect Workers Factors Rejection Thrown Holiday Retirement Bondage Integrating Scrap Drudgery

Book:La vieillesse

Source: La vieillesse

“Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.”

Knows Men Workers Painter Priests Cult

Book:Brice Marden: Recent Paintings and Drawings : [catalogue of an Exhibition], September 23-21 October 1978, The Pace Gallery, New York

Source: Brice Marden: Recent Paintings and Drawings : [catalogue of an Exhibition], September 23-21 October 1978, The Pace Gallery, New York

“The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.”

Reality Jobs President Community Hours Achievement Organization Fundamentals Majority Workers Vices Eight Access Fulfillment Our Society Executives Vice President Sweepers

Author:Peter Drucker

“The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.”

Way Workers Determined Effectiveness

Author:Peter Drucker

“This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.”

“Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.”

World Said Difficult Roles Models Workers Profession Prostitution Passivity Distasteful Professional Work Passivity Is

Author:Thomas Szasz

“A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.”

Company Workers Customers Owners

Author:Ed Miliband

“My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.”

World Has Beens Enough Whole Party Movement Workers Conviction Whole Life Radical Rejection Communist Socialist Membership Socialist Party

Book:On Pilgrimage

Source: On Pilgrimage

“The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.”

Source: The Pentagon of Power

“I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.”

Thinking Want Important Hard Life Is Roles Hard Work Daughter Workers Aunt Niece Hard Worker

Author:Jessie J

“Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable.”

“Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Example Workers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.”

“An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.”

“Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.”

People Giving Our Lives Revolution Fellows Democratic Prepared Workers Socialist Peasants Fellow Workers

Author:Fidel Castro

“The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.”

“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes

“In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.”

Country Difficult Workers Practicals Construction Idealist Planners

Author:Sun Yat-sen

“The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.”

Needs Ideas Law Lows Capitalism Fundamentals Workers Customers Absurd Employment More Money Wages

Author:Nick Hanauer

“I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.”

Thinking Needs Should Ideas Enough Seems Left Common Pay Wings Workers Common Sense Corporations Giants Stamps Profitable Left Wing Food Stamps

Author:Nick Hanauer

“Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.”

Want Country America Deals Workers Other Countries

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.”

People America Black Democracy Rights Slavery Workers Agendas Black People Splits Womens Rights Frederick Douglas

Author:Cornel West

“I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse than this. We've got slavery and Jim Crow. We've got workers with no rights up until `35. We're going to bounce back. We are resilient, resisting people. So, it's not pessimism, but it is blues-like. It's not optimistic. We're just prisoners of hope, that's all.”

People Poor Rights Slavery Workers Optimistic Pessimism Prisoner Poor People Crow Pessimistic Resisting Resilient Bounce Jim Crow

Author:Cornel West

“My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.”

Ifs Two Facts Numbers Leader Advice Mines Workers China Bridges Hiring Port Shanghai

Author:Barack Obama

“Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.”

Kind Has Beens Soul Spirit Values Grace Standards Hundred Responsible Salvation Workers Devoted Disciple Sovereign Testimony Awakened Sanctification Reproducing

Author:Oswald Chambers

“I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things.”

People Choices Sides Wife Areas Majority Workers My Wife Agents I've Learned Etc Bounce Sponsors Co Worker

Author:Kurt Sutter

“Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.”

World Littles Hard Economy Environment Conditions Safety Workers Exposed Regulation Innovative Safety Net

Author:Richard Attias

“They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.”

Knows Done Problem Three Known Rights Happened Blood Cold Bills Workers Solve Civil Rights Fbi Drains Hoover

Author:Malcolm X

“I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.”

Workers Glad Anxious Tombstone Masons

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.”

Writing Home Today Faces Terrible Workers Casts Clothings Oaks Dusk Womens Day Returning Home Nonentity

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“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.”

Ifs Men Hands Used Hours Taken Cutting Objects He Man Amount Becoming Labor Machines Slavery Workers Satisfied Factories Twelve Tire Condemning Factory Workers

Author:Max Stirner

“The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming. The union of one will be peopled by one man or one woman who is alive. Such a person is always sought by the intelligent manager.”

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.”

Men Community Enemy Class Practice Workers Various Every Man Charm Injury Occupation Primitive Distribution Magician Uniformity

Author:James G. Frazer

“The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.”

“The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.”

People Has Beens Important Important Things Constant Workers Contact Peasants

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.”

Knows Men Said Lasts Actors Father Wish Fields Dad Mets Workers Divorce Architecture Aids Brad Best Father

Author:Angelina Jolie

“They will do anything for the worker, except become one.”

Workers

Book:Timescape

Source: Timescape

“Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.”

World Real Compassion Fantasy Workers Academic Marxism Penetrate Peasants Fantasy Worlds Sweepstakes

Author:Camille Paglia

“Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.”

Government Loses Conditions Capitalism Workers Anarchy Anarchism Nothing To Lose

Book:What is Communist Anarchism?

Source: What is Communist Anarchism?

“Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.”

Share Determination Workers Copies Carbon

Author:Tony Benn

“The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships - i.e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences.”

Men Should Made Important Loses Economic Consequence Sight Important Things Structure Workers Including Superiors Subordinates Personal Relationships Co Worker

Author:Vaclav Havel

“I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.”

Ifs Should Workers Spectators Peasants Ussr

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation.”

Names Loss Generations Masters Tradition Tasks Workers Humble Collectives Biblical Variation Obscurity Guarding Indomitable

Book:The Biblical text in the making: a study of the kethib-qere

Source: The Biblical text in the making: a study of the kethib-qere

“As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.”

Ifs Knows Goal United Struggle Achieve Conditions Victory Unity Workers Russia Barriers Polish Nationality Proletariat Armenians Demolition Georgians

Author:Joseph Stalin

“Now let us gather into one bouquet, from the King's garden, these seven fragrant flowers: Jesus the Son of God; Jesus our sin-bearer; Jesus the giver of eternal life; Jesus the keeper of our undying souls; Jesus the hearer of our prayers; Jesus the chastener who can turn crosses into crowns; and Jesus the wonder-worker who changes us into eternal likeness unto Himself! These flowers will keep sweet till heaven dawns.”

Soul Turns Jesus Heaven Prayer Sin Wonder Son Sweet Flower Kings Eternal Garden Crosses Seven Workers Dawn Crowns Our Prayers Giver Eternal Life Keepers Bouquets Fragrant Flowers

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“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.”

Hands Choices Conditions Workers Determine

Book:The American Federationist

Source: The American Federationist

“Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].”

Men Giving Helping Jobs Force Steps Support Failing Pressure Workers Homeless Homelessness Salesman Transient Migrants Giving Help Migrant Workers

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right to do: be more devoted as a dad, less devoted as a worker. This feeling is far more ubiquitous among men executives than women executives in many areas of the world because, for instance, Asia-Pacific women executives today are more than six times as likely to not have children than men executives are. The Asia-Pacific executive man is about six times as likely to be a working dad as an executive woman is to be a working mom.”

Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

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