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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3304)

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What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!
Anna Louise Strong
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We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.
Anna Louise Strong
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From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.
Anna Louise Strong
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They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.
Anna Louise Strong
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Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
Anna Louise Strong
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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.
Donna Shalala
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Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro level in ways that other political ideologies don't really feel they have to until after they seize state power.
David Graeber
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You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.
Dorothy Day
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Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
C. L. R. James
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war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.
Vida Dutton Scudder
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Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.
James Connolly
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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
Aneurin Bevan
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A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
Aneurin Bevan
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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
Aneurin Bevan
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The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
Aneurin Bevan
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The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.
Aneurin Bevan
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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
Aneurin Bevan
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Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
Aneurin Bevan
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
Aneurin Bevan
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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
Aneurin Bevan
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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
Aneurin Bevan
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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
Aneurin Bevan
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