Worker Quotes
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An industrial worker would sooner have a »5 note but a countryman must have praise.
Ronald George Blythe— 1969 Akenfield, ch.5.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
james connolly— 1915 The Re-conquest of Ireland.
Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
— The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translated by Edward MacCurdy,1938), vol.1, pt.1.
You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!
jim butcher— Character: Harry Dresden, Chapter 24(tribute to Miracle Max from The Princess Bride)
A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the ‘luxuries’ which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.
anthony crosland— The Future of Socialism by Anthony Crosland
The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
w. edwards deming— Cultural Transformation Study Guide Accessed December 19, 2006
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
w. e. b. dubois— Ch. V: Of the Wings of Atalanta
Mickey is a hard worker. He takes care of the house, looks after my animals, and satisfies me. What else can one expect of a man?
jayne mansfield— On her second husband, Mickey Hargitay
The steel worker on the girderLearned not to look down, and does his workAnd there are words we have learnedNot to look at,Not to look for substanceBelow them. But we are on the vergeOf vertigo.
george oppen— "The Building of the Skyscraper" st. 1, 1965; Collected Poems of George Oppen", New Directions, 1976, ISBN 0-811-20615-7
It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.
alexander mccall smith— Love Over Scotland, chapter 6
Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.
charles haddon spurgeon— P. 128. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.
Peter Drucker— p. 304 (The Practice of Management (1954))
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.
Peter Drucker— p.327 (The Practice of Management (1954))
The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 17, pg.199
Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.
jacques ellul— p. 384 (The Technological Society (1954))
I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.
james joyce— Page 113 (Finnegans Wake (1939))
If anyone wants to know why we must conduct ourselves [with commonsense and realism], just remember at all times, with all temptations, how you, each and every one of you sitting in this hall, each and every Labour worker watching this conference, each and every Labour voter, yes, and some others as well, remember how you felt on that dreadful morning of the tenth of June. Just remember how you felt then, and think to yourselves: 'June the ninth, 1983, never ever again will we experience that.'
neil kinnock— Speech to the Labour Party Conference after winning the 1983 leadership election (October 2, 1983), reported in Labour Party Annual Conference Report 1983, p. 30.
The worker is becoming impoverished absolutely, i.e., he is actually becoming poorer than before; he is compelled to live worse, to eat worse, to suffer hunger more, and to live in basements and attics.
— Collected Works, Vol. 18, pp. 435–436
The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.
karl marx— Estranged Labour, p. 30
In fact of course, this 'productive' worker cares as much about the crappy shit he has to make as does the capitalist himself who employs him, and who also couldn't give a damn for the junk.
karl marx— Notebook II, The Chapter on Capital, p. 193
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.
thomas szasz— p. 45 (The Second Sin (1973))
I felt like a social worker a lot of the time.
stella vine— "Debt, Diana and homesickness" The Journal, (2004-06-08)On stripping.
In the absence of truth there is no necessity, and this observation may serve as an index to the position of the modern egotist. Having become incapable of knowing, he becomes incapable of working, in the sense that all work is a bringing of the ideal from potentiality into actuality. … The modern worker does not, save in rare instances, respond to the ideal in the task.
richard weaver— p. 73 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
The leader may be chosen by the people, but he is guided by the right; and, in the same way, we may say that the worker may be employed by anyone, but that he is directed by the autonomous ideal in the task.
richard weaver— p. 76 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
— W. Edwards Deming (1993, p. 54) cited in: Melanie M. Minarik (2008) Building Knowledge Through Sensemaking. p.13
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.
— Dmitri Shostakovich, January 14, 1930, reported in Laurel E. Fay (2000). Shostakovich: A Life. Oxford University Press US, p. 55. ISBN 0195182510.
The canon of the [sharia] and the Church, closely linked with the laws of the bourgeosie, treated women as a commodity, a thing to be bought and sold by the male... Just as the bourgeosie had made the worker into its proletarian, so had the savage ancient canons of the [shariah], the Church, feudalism and the bourgeosie, reduced woman to the proletariat of the man.
— Enver Hoxha (1986) The Artful Albanian, (Chatto & Windus, London) ISBN 0701129700
