Employed Quotes
344 quotes by 286 authors
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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine…
— Henry Charles Carey
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The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand,…
— R. H. Tawney
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The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.
— James Madison
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[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply…
— George Washington
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The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to…
— Thomas Paine
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These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower…
— Howard Zinn
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I think there is something about L.A., fortunately: once you get one role people think, 'Oh well, someone employed her, so maybe we can.' I…
— Bella Heathcote
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If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may…
— William J. Clinton
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Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread…
— Eliza Bennett
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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
— John Lithgow
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I just simply am not a dater. I think I have been on three official dates in my life. They are like job interviews and…
— Holland Roden
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A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting for rearing the…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything,
— Grover Norquist
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Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate…
— Obafemi Awolowo
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
— Thomas Jefferson
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All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
— William Cowper
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Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
— Margery Allingham
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