Wage Quotes

457 Wage quotes by 337 unique authors

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our… — Jim Hightower
By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the U.K. has… — Tom Hodgkinson
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in… — Jay Inslee
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. — Muhammad Iqbal
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a… — Marcy Kaptur
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that… — Jack Kemp
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid… — John F. Kennedy
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in… — John F. Kerry
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are… — Barbara Kingsolver
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. — Christopher Lasch
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage… — Christopher Lasch
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. — Christopher Lasch
President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the… — David Letterman
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution… — John L. Lewis
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. — John L. Lewis
Obama's gonna play Santa Claus with the minimum wage. He's got no successes to brag about. He cannot talk about a robust job market. In… — Rush Limbaugh
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. — Douglas MacArthur
It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than… — John Malkovich
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are… — P.J. O'Rourke
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family… — Barack Obama
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below… — Bill Pascrell
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more… — Margaret Sanger
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. — Nicolas Sarkozy
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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