Leon Jouhaux famous quotes

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
-- Leon Jouhaux

#Reflection #Mature #Appearance

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
-- Leon Jouhaux

#Class #Progress #Social

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.
-- Leon Jouhaux

#Realization #Months #Firsts

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
-- Leon Jouhaux

#Patience #Lying #Way

A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.
-- Leon Jouhaux

#Simple #June #Effort

At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.
-- Leon Jouhaux

#Class #Organization #Ideas

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.
-- Leon Jouhaux

#Organization #Desire #World

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.
-- Leon Jouhaux

#Struggle #Heart #Unions

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
-- Leon Jouhaux

#Mother #Art #School

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.

An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Appearances often are deceiving.

I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.