X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3317)

Page 48 of 139
Filter & Style
Image
The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.
Margaret Sanger
Image
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
Image
There is no option but to transform our world to a zero carbon future. We will fight to ensure that no one is left behind. This report breaks new ground and gives workers and businesses the confidence that there can be an economic plan which creates jobs and sets our planet on the course for survival.
Sharan Burrow
Image
The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never been observed before, and described the properties it should have. Later experiments proved that this particle really exists and has those properties.
Irving Adler
Image
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
Helen Keller
Image
Business must be the solution, not the problem.
Dennis Weaver
Image
If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Image
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.
Dave Van Ronk
Image
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
Arthur Henderson
Image
Comrades - We are living in momentous times!
James Larkin
Image
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
Simone Weil
Image
If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Image
The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.
David Dellinger
Image
The great appear great to us.
James Connolly
Image
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
Simone Weil
Image
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.
John Dewey
Image
A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
Anna Louise Strong
Image
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
Federica Montseny
Image
The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
Saul Alinsky
Image
In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.
David Ben-Gurion
Image
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
Simone Weil
Image
How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
Helen Keller
Image
There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.
C. L. R. James
Image
All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.
Ed Asner
Previous
Next