Wages Quotes

349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors

The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as… — Jacques Barzun
New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the… — Danny Glover
The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages,… — Louis Althusser
But what makes wage slaves? Wages! — Groucho Marx
Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in local… — Sharan Burrow
Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and greatly reducing the… — Henry Hazlitt
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase… — David Ricardo
A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot… — Joseph Pulitzer
Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are treated… — Amy B. Lyman
I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my… — Dennis Kucinich
I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do not believe that… — Richard Riordan
Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale.… — Joe Biden
Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was,… — John Lanchester
The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got… — Alistair Darling
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker. — Karl Marx
The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the… — Sir John Richard Hicks
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity. — Elbert Hubbard
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages. — Richard Whately

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