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“Only the working masses can change society; but they will not do that spontaneously, on their own. They can rock capitalism back onto its heels but they will only knock it out if they have the organisation, the socialist party, which can show the way to a new, socialist order of society. Such a party does not just emerge. It can only be built out of the day-to-day struggles of working people.”
Paul Foot (1937–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After working with oil, pastel, and watercolors, I have intentionally returned to working with graphite. It is the most challenging mode of expression to master”
Wahbi Al-Hariri (1914–1994) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wahbi al-Hariri-Rifai (1992), The Spiritual Edifices of Islam: Drawings by Wahbi Al-Hariri-Rifai - National Museum (Saudi Arabia) Exhibit Booklet - 2002, Washington, D.C.: GDG Exhibits Trust & National Museum (Saudi Ara…
“What we have seen is that while the average person is working longer hours for lower wages, we have seen a huge increase in income and wealth inequality, which is now reaching obscene levels. This is a rigged economy, which works for the rich and the powerful, and is not working for ordinary Americans … You know, this country just does not belong to a handful of billionaires.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am also working on materials never worked on in the world, completely new type of materials on the planet. I am worried not so much for myself, I will go on working. But I am worried for others.”
C. N. Ramachandra Rao (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On working alone: "I enjoy working alone. I know myself, and I know what I want... and all this allows me to create my music before my thoughts can interrupt".”
Vangelis (1943–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I was] not an executive President but a working President and working within the four corners of the Constitution.”
K. R. Narayanan (1920–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: The Hindu Editor A salute to Citizen Narayanan, The Hindu, 10 November 2011
“Working hard doesn’t make you rich, working smart does.”
Jay Samit (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the psychic coherence of the group can be obtained only by the full contribution of every member, so we see that a readiness to compromise must be no part of the individual's attitude. Just so far as people think that the basis of working together is compromise or concession, just so far they do not understand the first principles of working together.”
Mary Parker Follett (1868–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My wife says that I should be working for retirement instead of pursuing my sizzled dream of writing. I told her she was right. I should be working instead of goofing off. But, I’m a man. What does she expect?”
Michael Scott Gallegos first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paper Cut Reflections" (Sep, 2014)
“I believe in working every day, and not necessarily repeating one way of working. I like to make something come out of trial and error methods – fooling around with mediums and taking the chance of its not coming to everything.”
Kenneth Noland (1924–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is quite a narrow studio [1970s], I can never see a big four-panel [panels she was working on the same time as parts of one tryptich] all at once.. ..I can see two big panels. That’s about all.. .I had an awful lot going on at once, going back and forth. I turn [canvases] to a wall (when I am not working on them). I cant paint with everything showing.”
Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quote in 1982, Mitchell gave on the occasion of her first European museum retrospective at the Musée d'Art Modern in Paris; as cited in The Paintings of Joan Mitchel, ed. Jane Livingstone, Joan Mitchell, Linda Nochlin, …
“Mr. Kurosawa would spend an entire day filming one shot. None of the other directors with whom I worked would do that. Working with Mr. Kurosawa was like working on a play instead of a movie. We would spend a great deal of time rehearsing. It was torturous.”
Haruo Nakajima (1929–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many people find it hard working with their boss and often leave their jobs because of their boss’ working style, behaviours and attitude. I once heard someone say, “I joined the company, but I left my boss”.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The job satisfiers deal with the factors involved in doing the job, whereas the job dissatisfiers deal with the factors that define the job context. Poor working conditions, bad company policies and administration, and bad supervision will lead to job dissatisfaction. Good company policies, good administration, good supervision, and good working conditions will not lead to positive job attitudes.”
Frederick Herzberg (1923–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Until we have the black working class and the Hispanic working class getting high-value-added jobs, we've failed as a society. To me: citizens first. And we don't need a million immigrants in this country. Particularly, we don't need a million immigrants that don't come with a real set of skills.”
Steve Bannon (born 1953) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Bannon: Always the Rebel (2017) by Keith Koffler
“Everything that's working, we're going to make it better, everything that's not working we're going to try and fix, and anything that seems to be obsolete and not necessary we're going to away with.”
Nikki Haley (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poor and working people in this country are sent to kill poor and working people in other country to make the rich richer. Without racism, soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war.”
Michael Prysner (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I just want to keep working and being enthusiastic and having dreams and working hard to make those dreams come true, anything else is boredom.”
Pat Carroll (actress) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I prefer character-driven stuff. I am an actor and I come from theater and I love creating a scene and working with actors as opposed as opposed to working with CGI. But there is some fun to be had with the B-movie monster movies as well especially today because they are so self-aware, you can have a lot of fun. But I definitely prefer the more straightforward horror.”
Griff Furst (born 1981) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: SLIFF 2016 Interview: Griff Furst – Director of COLD MOON (October 31, 2016)
“I love acting because it’s my heart. I love playing characters. When I get on the set, something snaps in me, something different. It’s what I was meant to do. I love working with other actors, I love working with directors, and I love creating something. From the DP [director of photography] to the director and the actors—and even down to the catering—you know, it’s just a family.”
Tara Reid (born 1975) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tara Reid Is Not a Loser (August 30 2014)
“If yogis are to come to the realization of the interconnectedness of life, then we must free ourselves from the conditioning that has caused us to think it is all right to exclude all the other animals from our own goals of peace, freedom, and happiness. … By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.”
Sharon Gannon (born 1951) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sharon Gannon on Veganism”, in JivamuktiYoga.com (16 November 2016).
“I don’t want to be full of myself. I really have fun when I’m working, and I don’t want to not have fun when I’m working, because I’m trying to convince myself that I’m ‘somebody’. I don’t like it, and I don’t enjoy other people who are like that. And that’s one of the reasons why doing smaller-budget stuff is really good. You don’t run into that so much…”
Brad Dourif (born 1950) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Den Of Geek interview: Brad Dourif (August 18, 2008)
“The details supplied by Khrushchev on Stalin’s methods ... lead us to believe in the existence in these countries of a veritable state capitalism, exploiting the working class in a manner not very different from the way the working class is used in capitalist countries.”
Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being the champion of the working man against the corporations is the reason for the Democrat Party's existence. For them to lose working class Americans to Donald Trump is not that the Democrats have a problem in terms of election, but in terms of identity.”
Bill Whittle (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This week’s episode discussing Tom’s car accident is hard to watch. We both live such busy lives working that sometimes it takes accidents like this to remind us of what’s most important in life—each other. I’m thankful he's made a full recovery, and just in case you were wondering, he never stopped working.”
Erika Jayne (born 1971) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Erika Jayne's blog for Bravo (2018)
“I am busy working on a large painting with sheep; the last days I am working with real pleasure, the weather is.. ..not too hot and with nice skies. It's great here!!!! I shout with joy the whole day and more and more I desire to stay here until the end. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Anton Mauve (1838–1888) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter of Mauve, from Laren 1885, to his student , as quoted by Arina Hugenholtz in In Memoriam Anton Mauve; as cited in Van IJs naar Sneeuw - De ontwikkeling van het wintergezicht in de 19de eeuw, Arsine Nazarian,…
“It was really fun.I had just joined the company,so rather than just working along with the designs.I'd ask what the conditions were and have fun working within those constraints.”
Takashi Tezuka (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A good rule of thumb for diagnosing an activity as pseudoscientific is the existence of ad hoc explanations: “my telepathic powers aren’t working today because of a force field emanating from the hostile talk-show host.” There are no “bad-gravity days” and there are no days when your TV set stops working because electromagnetic waves feel hostility.”
Mordechai Ben-Ari (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not struggle as working class, we struggle against being working class, against being classified.”
John Holloway (sociologist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he Supreme Court determines how wealth can be earned, accumulated, and disposed of; it decides how far the rich can go in exploiting the poor and working people, and whether working people can fight back.”
Thom Hartmann (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Billionaires need the working class. The working class does not need billionaires.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (August 8, 2020)
“Democrats are doing the right thing by standing up for working people and not allowing the Republicans to carry a tax cut for the wealthiest people in our country on the backs of working people in America.”
Kamala Harris (born 1964) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In AP interview, Harris says Democrats ‘are standing up for working people’ in government shutdown AP News (October 18, 2025).
“Working hard is great when it’s motivated by passion and love and enthusiasm. But working hard when it’s motivated by deprivation is not pleasant.”
Viola Davis (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My challenge was working with puppets, but their challenge was working with Louis Leterrier. I was non-compromising, "this will not look like your grandfather's puppet show, and this will look like The Dark Crystal, that broke the mould then, so let's break it again and bring puppetry as far as it can get", and that's really what we did.”
Louis Leterrier (born 1973) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted on Abigail Chandler, "You Absolute Muppet", SciFiNow, 161, 2019: 18-25
“We are working on a number of fronts (against COVID-19), firstly to make sure that there is support for those Australians and we are also working on, as are other countries, to try to secure their ability to return to Australia.”
Greg Hunt (born 1965) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Greg Hunt (2020) cited in: "Wuhan virus: Australia confirms fifth coronavirus case from last flight out of Wuhan" in The Straits Times, 27 January 2020.
“I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are working-class...well, not working class.”
Rishi Sunak (born 1980) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the BBC documentary series Middle Classes - Their Rise and Sprawl (23 March 2001), as cited in "Rishi Sunak suggests he doesn’t have ‘working class’ friends in resurfaced documentary" The Independent (9 July 2022)
“As the coronavirus epidemic stretches on, working people are facing an economic collapse, the likes of which have not been seen since the Great Depression. Organizing to fight for an immediate ban on all layoffs has to be an essential part of any program to protect the working class and to make the capitalist’s pay for their crisis.”
James Dennis Hoff wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the things that changed was [that] the institutions that supported working people have been decimated. ...[T]he Democrats, the party of the working people, played a role in this. They allowed the weakening... of unions. They bought the argument that unions are bad for companies.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Singapore has become a stratified society. Years of unevenly distributed growth in a neoliberal growth regime has led to emergence of a class of working and non-working poor who face insurmountable challenges in uplifting themselves from a .”
Irene Y. H. Ng wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also love working for the government (no really!). There is more security working for a government lab and I didn't have to get tenure. The people at NASA are so good -so dedicated, so fun to be with”
Michelle Thaller (born 1969) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I am Michelle Thaller, astronomer, NASA Scientist, and (most recently) podcast host. Ask me Anything! (December 21, 2015)
“I love working on shows where they have the history week to week where the more you watch it, the more interesting it becomes. As you watch it unfold over time, that’s where you see it really flower. That’s my preference when I’m working on something.”
Gillian Horvath (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think it's really sad there's nothing like Hammer anymore. It was like a repertory company, same people, same places. The little studio at Bray was lovely. Working for Hammer was like working for a family. Also, the cooking there was great, best apple pie I've ever had I my life!”
Yvonne Romain (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[On working with Asuka during summer 2020] “All I wanted to do was have fun during the summer,” Banks said. “Being 'Two Belt Banks was probably the greatest time I’ve ever had. Working with Asuka, who is probably one of the greatest in the world, I could be in the ring with her every single week and I’d be so happy.”
Sasha Banks (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one can teach you how to compose a shot. You are only guided by an instinct. It has to come from within. I learned cinema by working on my films. The best thing was that I bought my own camera, and since I was working on the digital medium, I had the freedom to experiment, shoot more.”
Rima Das (born 1977) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: SilverScreenIndia Article - Making A Zero Budget Movie: The Tale Of Assamese Filmmaker Rima Das’s ‘Village Rockstars’ - 20 November 2017 - Archive
“I Think if I wanted to be famous, I would be working hard at doing that -- I am kind of working hard at not doing that.”
Kevin MacLeod (born 1972) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet Kevin Macleod, the Internet's Composer YouTube (2022)
“I am only a small screw. The working class has stepped onto the stage of struggle-criticism-transformation of the superstructure. In fact, the working class had already stepped onto the political stage in 1964 on the literary line. This was an epoch-making achievement in the international Communist movement as well as a tremendous contribution of our great leader Chairman Mao to Marxist-Leninism.”
Jiang Qing (1914–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As Agriculture ministers, we're always looking at ways to make sure our programs and policies are working for farmers, producers and processors across the country. I look forward to continuing to build strong relationships across Canada and working together for Canadian food production and security”
Lana Popham (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alongside new capital, innovative instruments, partnerships and new ways of working together are critical if we are to overcome the challenges posed by climate, pandemics and debt. These new, integrated, initiatives announced today are embodiment of what can come out of new cooperative ways of working together.”
Mia Mottley (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As you know, I was a high school coach for many years. I have a high regard for competition on the football field. But governing is not a sporting contest with opposing teams each wanting to defeat the other. It’s not a horse race nor a poker game to see who can best the other. It’s about working together. Working to give everyone a better chance.”
Tim Walz (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are doing well. We are trying to do $2m this year. In 2016, we are planning to do $20m. So that’s why we are working hard and we are trying to expand our working facility. The demand is here. It’s up to us to take that advantage and to make it happen,”
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source