Best Wages Qoutes
349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors
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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
— Jim Hightower
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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
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages…
— Karl Marx
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Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
— Theresa May
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
— H. L. Mencken
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Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the…
— Michael Moore
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The wages of pedantry is pain.
— Carroll O'Connor
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I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron…
— Evita Peron
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
— Paula Poundstone
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
— Terry Pratchett
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Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
— Robert Reich
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If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages,…
— Christina Romer
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Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition…
— Christina Romer
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What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What…
— Mitt Romney
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Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising…
— Mitt Romney
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We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.
— James Sinegal
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Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
— Thomas Sowell
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Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of…
— Eliot Spitzer
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What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will…
— James Surowiecki
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Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing,…
— James Surowiecki
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I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos…
— Alice Walker
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness…
— Ellen G. White
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
— Harold Wilson
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