Quotes About Unionism

#1. Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

Hans F. Sennholz

#2. All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

Rose Schneiderman

#3. Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.

Eugene V. Debs

#5. Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

Benito Mussolini

#6. Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

H.L. Mencken

#7. To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Bill Shorten

#8. The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

A. Philip Randolph

#9. In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

Frances O'Grady

#10. What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

George Bernard Shaw

#11. I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Charles Kennedy

#12. Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

Seamus Heaney

#13. Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

Gerry Adams

#14. Just as democratic government cannot be condemned because of errors and even crimes committed by men democratically elected, so trade-unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade-union leaders.

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.

Gerry Adams

#16. It is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

Rose Schneiderman

#17. I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

Richard Attenborough

#18. If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#19. This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

Leon Jouhaux

#20. Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here.

Harry Shearer

#21. Being with you is as easy as being alone.

Eleanor Prescott

#22. I believe my love of beauty and my ability to see what works is a gift I was given by God.

Debbie Ford

#23. Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter ... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.

Ion Keith-Falconer

#24. Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

Asne Seierstad

#25. Golf is evolving, every day, every shot.

Tiger Woods

#26. Invited or not, God is present.

Carl Jung

#27. That day, when I returned to the bookshop after visiting the old house, I found a parcel bearing a Paris postmark. It contained a book called The Angel of Mist,

Anonymous

#28. Fang, I think you better stop or Talon might turn you into a wolf kabob. (Vane)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. Need doesn't care about being sensible.

Amit Kalantri

#30. (On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

Bill Gates

#31. Well, Tommy, he said, I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that's the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that?

James Joyce

#32. One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples ... We will keep on working to bring the temples to the people, making it more convenient for Latter day Saints everywhere to receive the blessings which can only be had in these holy houses.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#33. This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

Ezra Pound

#34. You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

Lennox Lewis