Quotes with trade-union

Quotes 121 till 140 of 177.

  • Alfred Loisy The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
    Alfred Loisy
    French theologian (1857 - 1940)
    - +
     0
  • Calvin Trillin The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
    - +
     0
  • Boris Yeltsin The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • Boris Spassky The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Laffer The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • George Sand The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Paine The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Scargill The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
    - +
     0
  • B. W. Powe The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 113
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Scargill The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
    - +
     0
  • William Cobbett The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
    - +
     0
  • Anna Lindh The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Hawke There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.
    Bob Hawke
     
    - +
     0
  • Cyril Connolly There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Jean de la Bruyère There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
    - +
     0
  • Andrew Jackson There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Scargill There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Boxer There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, 'What do you need? What do you want?'
    Source: Americans for Prosperity
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
    - +
     0
All trade-union famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 7)