Unions Quotes

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

Faith is the union of God and the soul.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

A national language is a band of national union.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

You can't do it unless you organize.

The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.

Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.

Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!

Friendship is the union of spirits.

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity.

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.

there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

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.

Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.