Quotes & Sayings About Skilled Trades

I love learning, but hate being taught. — Winston Churchill

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common. — R.A. Lafferty

I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow. — Georges Braque

As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.' — David T. Hardy

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship. — Voltairine De Cleyre

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first. — Christopher Hitchens

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial. — Jessie Daniel Ames

As well as a shared mentality, the Establishment is cemented by financial links and a 'revolving door' culture: that is, powerful individuals gliding between the political, corporate and media worlds - or who manage to inhabit these various worlds at the same time. The terms of political debate are in large part dictated by a media controlled by a small number of exceptionally rich owners, while think tanks and political parties are funded by wealthy individuals and corporate interests. — Owen Jones

She was my calm in the middle of chaos, a little piece of innocence untouched by the turbulence of the past. — Leylah Attar

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone. — Harmony Korine

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had. — Isaac Rosenberg

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud. — Aloe Blacc

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. — Bill Wyman

My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible. — John W. Rogers Jr.