Howard Gardner
Psychologist, Educator
"If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave."
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Workers
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Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object."
Blaise Cendrars
Poet and Novelist
"I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing."
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers."
Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other."
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"The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product."
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"A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time."
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"The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker."
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"The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker."
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"We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth."
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"The American worker is more productive than he's ever been."
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"Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker."
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"Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders."
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"To the worker, God himself lends aid."
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"All office workers are afraid of being late for work."
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"To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up."
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"Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too."
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"The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves."
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"Workers in different countries can easily be played off against each other."
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"The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers."
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"Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker."
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"There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen."
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"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
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"I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones."
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"Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway."
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