#worker

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#clothes #dressed #lebanon #soldiers #syrian

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#build #chief #chief executive #class #enough

If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat. ↗

— James Forrestal

#assets #channels #could #eat #employment

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act. ↗

— Max Weber

#achieved #act #again #always #become

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats... ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#beethoven #diplomats #freedom #life #love

I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#amazing #born #born to be #chance #fact

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society. ↗

— David Korten

#fabric #proud #rights #say #social

I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented. ↗

— David Brock

#hard worker #i #incredibly #tenacious #worker

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#directors #factory #just #like #our

Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#american #american workers #both #compete #countries