Ruth McKenney quotes
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“Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.”
-- Ruth McKenneySource : "Personal quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by the silence.... For the first time in history, American mass-production workers had stopped a conveyor belt and halted the inexorable movement of factory machinery.”
-- Ruth McKenney
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“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.”
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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
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Source : FaceBook post by Akiane Kramarik from May 03, 2012
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals”
Source : "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.
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“Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.”
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