Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs. — James Cook Copy Share Image
While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. — Ed Pastor Copy Share Image
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good… — Robert Bosch Copy Share Image
Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen. — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen. — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We have to create that bridge for the future. And that means making sure we're paying attention to the wages of workers… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
“The majority of any society comprised, Smith knew, not landlords or merchants, but "servants, laborers, and workmen of different kinds," who derived… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage. — Norm Coleman Copy Share Image