Quotes about Skilled Craftsmen

Sam Rayburn

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Karl Marx

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Hobart Alter

On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.

Freemasonry

Of neither parties to take no bribe; Of lord nor fellow, whoever he be, Of them thou take no manner of fee; And as a judge stand upright, And then thou dost to both good right And truly do this wheresoever thou goest, Thy worship, thy profit, it shall be most.

The Regius Poem, often referred to as The Halliwell Manuscript, c.1390, is the oldest Englsh langiage document of Freemasonry, It was a long poem with a then classic rhyming scheme. It articulated 15 moral precepts and even more "principles" of the English Masons at the time, which was not vastly different from Masons today.

Muskogee Herald

Free society! We sicken at the name. What is it but a conglomeration of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small-fisted farmers, and moon-struck theorists? All the northern, and especially the New England states, are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery, and yet are hardly fit for association with a southern gentleman’s body servant.

This editorial from an Alabama newspaper in 1856 is a wonderful illustration of the animosity held by many in the South towards the North. It also shows the major difference in egalitarianism between the North and the South at that time. The only Southerners who could read were the upper class who were terribly fearful of the effects of upward mobility of whites in a slave free industrial democracy. “Mechanics” at the time referred to all skilled craftsmen.

Lexi Alexander

The people at Cabot Guns are a rare breed of geniuses and artists in a vast gun world.

Ibn Khaldun

The Abbaside Khalifa [Caliphate] collapsed because some ignorant advisors convinced successive Caliphs to impose dramatic increases in taxes to pay for mercenaries and purchase luxury imports. This stupidity killed industry and forced the most prominent and highly skilled craftsmen and traders to flee to India, and even to China

Martin Filler

The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.

Hanya Yanagihara

Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

Skilled Craftsmen Quotes