"If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave."

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Source : "The Ethical Mind". Howard Gardner, Harvard Business Review, March 2007.

Howard Gardner

#Believe Quotes #Slave Quotes #Workers Quotes

“Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.”
“To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that small regard to rule Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school; That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street.”
“There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.”
“Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.”

Source : Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.295
“The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.”
“I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.”
“Little things that run the world.”

Source : "Expo Line Landscaping Lunacy" by Lisa Novick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.
“Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.â€¦ You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?”

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