Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Shorten

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

Bill Shorten

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Aleister Crowley

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

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Albert Camus

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

David Cameron

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

Andy Stern

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Jack Kirby

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

Todor Zhivkov

Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.

Eric Bolling

A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right.

James Cook

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

Henry A. Kissinger

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

Nicolas Malebranche

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

Nigel Farage

[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.

You wonder how long the unions will take it.

Mortimer Adler

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Steve Earle

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

Ted Lindsay

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

Marc Cohn

Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.

Tony Kushner

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

Shakti Gawain

The union of feminine and masculine energies within the individual is the basis of all creation.

Richard Stallman

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

Meher Baba

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

Pope Francis

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

Timothy Garton Ash

The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.