Sweatshops Around The World Quotes & Sayings

There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states. — Tony Robbins

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others. — Mary Harron

The first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization — Alec Douglas-Home

Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas. — Janeane Garofalo

Because of GLHR's crusades ... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families. — John Sweeney

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them. — Daniel Goleman

We had representatives of most every ethnic group in the public school, and I always felt that this gave me a sense of balance about those ethnic problems that was useful to me in later life, and particularly in political life. — Prescott Bush

You're my son. I love you. You work for godless sorcerers who I'd happily gut on the altar of that pyramid and you are part of a system that will one day destroy our city and our planet, but I still love you. — Max Gladstone

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales — Paul Cookson

You're faithful, amusing and considerate, so your Capricorn star sign says, you're also reserved and disciplined, but let your hair down, Its your Birthday — Susan Smith

Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel. — Laozi

Sex is pretty much our most important job. It's the one thing we have to nail - so to speak - so we get invited back for more. It's pretty much the reason we take a shower and brush our hair. — Rachel Gibson

Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment. — Epictetus

The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically. — Leo Tolstoy

It is preposterous to think that we are peaceful when every day we spend more money to built killing machine than to educate our children. — Debasish Mridha

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that lead down to the shattered sidewalk. New York is probably, in this regard at least, the strangest city in the world, so many of its denizens living as they (we) do among the unreconstructed remnants of nineteenth-century sweatshops and tenements, the streets potholed and buckling while right over there, around the corner, is a Chanel boutique. We go shopping amid the rubble, like the world's richest, best-dressed refugees. — Michael Cunningham