Wage Quotes

457 Wage quotes by 337 unique authors

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times… — Bill Gates
Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism. — Ludwig von Mises
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. — Walter E. Williams
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is… — Milton Friedman
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity. — U Thant
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my… — George Bernard Shaw
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has… — Al Gore
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. — Adolf Hitler
Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years… — Michael A. Ledeen
We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty — Barack Obama
I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow — Barack Obama
Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the… — Paul Krugman
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is… — George Stigler
I think that if it is.. has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant… — Barack Obama
Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others… — Hilaire Belloc
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class… — Jacques Ellul
So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays… — Michael Parenti
So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke… — John F. Kennedy
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with… — Victor Hugo
An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I… — Jeremy Irons
This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means… — Stephanie Cutter
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side!… — Howard Zinn

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