Quotes tagged ‘workers’

“We work all day. We work all night. We never learned to read or write. We're happy-hearted roustabouts! When other folks have gone to bed we slave until we're almost dead.”

— Joe Grant, Choral Effects, The King’s Men, imdb.com

“He brought them here and stuck them in his factory! Is he paying these poor people? Are their toilets for them? I’ve seen their faces! I can’t be sure of this, but one of them has a look like, 'I should’ve taken my chances back in Germany!'”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Abe Weinberg, Tony Shalhoub, imdb.com

“Please, please, kids, stop fighting. Maybe Lisa's right about America being the land of opportunity, and maybe Adil's got a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers.”

— Sam Simon, George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta, imdb.com

“I have a big business, and I like workers. I’m producing a lot of really good workers.”

— Donald Trump, factba.se

“It has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good gov…”

— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org

“It is rotten and dismal that a world of so many hundred million people should be ruled by a single caste that has the power to lead millions to life or to death, indeed on a whim...This caste has spun its web over the entire earth; capitalism recognizes no national boundaries...Capitalism has learne…”

— Joseph Goebbels, en.wikiquote.org

“We should be rewarding work in this country, not doling out lavish tax cuts to big businesses, CEOs, and bankers.”

— Kirsten Gillibrand, twitter.com

“It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.”

— Charles Babbage, amazon.com

“The capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers.”

— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com

“There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today.”

— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com

“In an hour a sex worker in Medellín, Colombia can make the equivalent of a month’s minimum wage in Venezuela”

— The Economist, twitter.com