Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spike Lee

'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

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.

Michael Pollan

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

Lucretius

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.

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.

Fredrik Bajer

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Fredrik Bajer

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

Franz Kafka

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.

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.

Frances O'Grady

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

George Washington

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

George Washington

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

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.

John Calvin

When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.

Henry James

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

Nikki Haley

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

Nikki Haley

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

Mortimer Adler

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

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.

Norman Tebbit

I've never bashed a union in my life.

Norman Mailer

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

Eric Bolling

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

You wonder how long the unions will take it.

John C. Calhoun

We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states.

Tim Harford

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

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.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

Jose Manuel Barroso

The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.

Jose Manuel Barroso

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

The Union makes De Pere what it is.