Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.
The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.
Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker.
The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend.
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity. ) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.
Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.
Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.
Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.
Manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.
A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
You can't take the view of some of the sectarian parties that hard issues can't be confronted when dealing with workers. If you don't confront these issues, what will ever change?
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.