Wages Quotes

349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors

These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead.… — A. E. Housman
If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. — Henry David Thoreau
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. — Irvin S. Cobb
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages. — Robert Browning
President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day… — Rosa DeLauro
When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee… — Colin Firth
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were… — Anna Howard Shaw
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. — Bernard Baruch
If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence,… — Unknown Author
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him;… — Samuel Gompers
As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable… — John Sweeney
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate… — Clara Zetkin
The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. Â They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is… — G. Edward Griffin
Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses. — Pete Seeger
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits… — Ludwig von Mises
With real wages still falling for many, people are increasingly being forced to use their credit cards, their dwindling savings, or take out payday or… — Frances O'Grady
If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining. — David Korten
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses,… — Frederic Bastiat
Profits are better than wages. — Jim Rohn

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