Labor Activism Quotes

#1. The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

Nevil Shute

#2. For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

Ed O'Brien

#3. It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occupants of the Seville to live a collective life.

Bradley Somer

#4. The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.

Steven Pressfield

#5. I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.

Jerry Doyle

#6. Not merely godforsaken, I feel forsaken by everyone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to be an artist and this exquisite selflessness that's required to be a parent.

Liz W. Garcia

#8. I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.

Toby Emmerich

#9. After Jacob had worked for Laban for seven years, do you know what happened? Laban fooled him and gave him his ugly daughter Leah. So to marry Rachel, Jacob was forced to work another seven years.

So, you see, children, the Bible clearly teaches us you can never trust an employer.

Joseph Stein

#10. The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

Tucker Elliot

#11. One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.

Valerie Martin

#12. The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Merle Shain

#13. I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Kevin Youkilis

#14. both were writers of high ambition, with

Gyles Brandreth

#15. In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining ... . We demand this fraud be stopped.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

B.G. Bowers

#17. You look like something the cat coughed up, dragged through dirt, ate, and coughed up again.

Thomm Quackenbush

#18. I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

John Steinbeck