Quotes about Wage

But what makes wage slaves? Wages! Votes: 3

Wage war on death. Live for love. Votes: 3

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife. Votes: 3

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner. Votes: 3

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers. Votes: 3

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase. Votes: 2

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Votes: 2

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage. Votes: 2

In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. Votes: 2

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. Votes: 2

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. Votes: 2

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs. Votes: 2

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. Votes: 2

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. Votes: 2

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children. Votes: 2

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard. Votes: 2

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. Votes: 2

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 to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. Votes: 2

Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export. Votes: 2

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length. Votes: 2

Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. Votes: 2

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war. Votes: 2

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. Votes: 2

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 leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. Votes: 2

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion. Votes: 2

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along. Votes: 2

Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle. Votes: 2

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed. Votes: 2

Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones. Votes: 2

My mom worked at McDonald's, and she decided she wanted to make more money, so she got into the management program at McDonald's. And that's how you move up the chain. It's not by demanding that minimum wage is raised; it's by actually acquiring the skills. That's the way that people get ahead in life. Votes: 2

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up. Votes: 2

predicament, n. The wage of consistency. Votes: 0

The real minimum wage is zero. Votes: 0

When adults wage war, children perish. Votes: 0

We should raise the national minimum wage. Votes: 0

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly. Votes: 0

Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Votes: 0

A low wage business is always insecure. Votes: 0

A poet must learn to wage war. Votes: 0

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism. Votes: 0

Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer. Votes: 0

A great country cannot wage a little war. Votes: 0

Let's defend overtime and go after wage theft. Votes: 0

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war. Votes: 0

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry. Votes: 0

You can't receive a living wage unless you work. Votes: 0

Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day. Votes: 0

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. Votes: 0

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. Votes: 0

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. Votes: 0

Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war. Votes: 0

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people. Votes: 0

I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation. Votes: 0

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families. Votes: 0

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage. Votes: 0

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society. Votes: 0

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill, Votes: 0

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage. Votes: 0

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class. Votes: 0

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive. Votes: 0

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that. Votes: 0

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. Votes: 0

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. Votes: 0

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work. Votes: 0

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. Votes: 0

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic. Votes: 0

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. Votes: 0

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change. Votes: 0

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. Votes: 0

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Votes: 0

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous. Votes: 0

There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. Votes: 0

Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage Votes: 0

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. Votes: 0

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been. Votes: 0

Don't let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs, Votes: 0

Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist. Votes: 0

But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure. Votes: 0

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows. Votes: 0

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax. Votes: 0

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class. Votes: 0

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. Votes: 0

You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. Votes: 0

Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom. Votes: 0

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage. Votes: 0

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. Votes: 0

Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care. Votes: 0

The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE. Votes: 0

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage. Votes: 0

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage. Votes: 0

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary. Votes: 0

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better. Votes: 0

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage. Votes: 0

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. Votes: 0

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability. Votes: 0

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. Votes: 0

The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate. Votes: 0

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning. Votes: 0

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people. Votes: 0

Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families. Votes: 0

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity. Votes: 0

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda. Votes: 0

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty. Votes: 0

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. Votes: 0

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers. Votes: 0

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity. Votes: 0

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace. Votes: 0

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist. Votes: 0

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination. Votes: 0

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine. Votes: 0

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. Votes: 0

If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage. Votes: 0

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce. Votes: 0

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time. Votes: 0

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. Votes: 0

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage. Votes: 0

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. Votes: 0

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies Votes: 0

Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world. Votes: 0

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. Votes: 0

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq. Votes: 0

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry. Votes: 0

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees. Votes: 0

If you join ISIS, if you wage jihad on America, then you are signing your death warrant. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. Votes: 0

I believe increasing minimum wage it`s not just the minimum wage, it`s a living wage. Votes: 0

Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe. Votes: 0

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully. Votes: 0

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise. Votes: 0

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage. Votes: 0

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income. Votes: 0

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly. Votes: 0

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future. Votes: 0

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. Votes: 0

We need to wage this war against ISIS from the air, on the ground, and online, in cyberspace. Votes: 0

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war. Votes: 0

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war. Votes: 0

I pay a living wage, I believe in healthcare, I declare all my income, and I don't cut corners. Votes: 0

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well. Votes: 0

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies! Votes: 0

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty. Votes: 0

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious. Votes: 0

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour. Votes: 0

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage. Votes: 0

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. Votes: 0

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. Votes: 0

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue. Votes: 0

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty Votes: 0

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act. Votes: 0

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing. Votes: 0

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears. Votes: 0

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. Votes: 0

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers. Votes: 0

I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses. Votes: 0

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Votes: 0

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses. Votes: 0

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result. Votes: 0

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. Votes: 0

the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. Votes: 0

I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow Votes: 0

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness. Votes: 0

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live. Votes: 0

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. Votes: 0

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them. Votes: 0

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. Votes: 0

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. Votes: 0

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war. Votes: 0

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy. Votes: 0

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war. Votes: 0

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education. Votes: 0

I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me. Votes: 0

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity. Votes: 0

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. Votes: 0

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more. Votes: 0

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with Votes: 0

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it. Votes: 0

Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy. Votes: 0

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage. Votes: 0

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. Votes: 0

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason Votes: 0

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent. Votes: 0

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. Votes: 0

Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage. Votes: 0

One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace. Votes: 0

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills. Votes: 0

I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid. Votes: 0

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. Votes: 0

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job. Votes: 0

A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage. Votes: 0

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country. Votes: 0

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination. Votes: 0

Al-Qa'idah was set up to wage a jihad against infidelity, particularly to encounter the onslaught of the infidel countries against the Islamic states. Votes: 0

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world. Votes: 0

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman. Votes: 0

I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels. Votes: 0

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company. Votes: 0

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. Votes: 0

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps. Votes: 0

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. Votes: 0

Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security." Votes: 0

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work. Votes: 0

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage. Votes: 0

Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security. Votes: 0

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet. Votes: 0

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families. Votes: 0

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time. Votes: 0

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty. Votes: 0

No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized. Votes: 0

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State Votes: 0

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy. Votes: 0

Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering. Votes: 0

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners. Votes: 0

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage. Votes: 0

Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class. Votes: 0

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty Votes: 0

Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws. Votes: 0

We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers. Votes: 0

Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers. Votes: 0

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist. Votes: 0

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage. Votes: 0

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful. Votes: 0

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war. Votes: 0

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working. Votes: 0

Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation. Votes: 0

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment. Votes: 0

To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question. Votes: 0

If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage. Votes: 0

The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us. Votes: 0

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it. Votes: 0

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists. Votes: 0

For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother! Votes: 0

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 from now. Votes: 0

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework. Votes: 0

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy. Votes: 0

Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. Votes: 0

Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. And he has been a one-man bulwark against minimum wage increases in Indiana. Votes: 0

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times. Votes: 0

The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction. Votes: 0

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels. Votes: 0

Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was. Votes: 0

President Obama wants Congress to increase the minimum wage. Believe me, when it comes to doing the minimum for their wage, Congress knows what it's talking about. Votes: 0

The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene. Votes: 0

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty. Votes: 0

I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage. Votes: 0

As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work. Votes: 0

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers. Votes: 0

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste. Votes: 0

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth. Votes: 0

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem. Votes: 0

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away. Votes: 0

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 the poverty line. Votes: 0

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage. Votes: 0

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable. Votes: 0

I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations. Votes: 0

In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income. Votes: 0

Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach. Votes: 0

Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war. Votes: 0

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes. Votes: 0

But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there. Votes: 0

It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial. Votes: 0

I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism. Votes: 0

Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires. Votes: 0

We [US] can't compete with low-wage countries in different parts of the world. We cannot compete with countries that play games with currencies or regulations. We can't. We shouldn't. Votes: 0

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. Votes: 0

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 to support a family. Votes: 0

The economy working - the economy growing, corporations growing and hiring people and wage increases occurring - is the worst thing that can happen politically for the Democrat Party. Votes: 0

The economy working - the economy growing, corporations growing and hiring people and wage increases occurring - is the worst thing that can happen politically for the Democrat Party. Votes: 0

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours. Votes: 0

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong. Votes: 0

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher. Votes: 0

Getting back to inflation, it is important to note that the producer price Index does not reflect wage pressures - and that is where the inflation threat really lies. Votes: 0

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby! Votes: 0

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders. Votes: 0

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery. Votes: 0

In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war. Votes: 0

The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids. Votes: 0

The wage of a people has meaning only when it arises from production. Every increase in production should benefit the whole people and raise the people's standards of living. Votes: 0

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance. Votes: 0

It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale. Votes: 0

I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not. Votes: 0

If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage sector cannot be a limited special program. Votes: 0

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 the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels. Votes: 0

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations. Votes: 0

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 elections are having terrific success. Votes: 0

I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it. Votes: 0

Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses. Votes: 0

With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust. Votes: 0

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table. Votes: 0

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness. Votes: 0

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that! Votes: 0

I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage. Votes: 0

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 a living wage in Indonesia. Votes: 0

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage. Votes: 0

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy. Votes: 0

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet. Votes: 0

Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world. Votes: 0

The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites. Votes: 0

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment. Votes: 0

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy. Votes: 0

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 the price of an average software writer. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs. Votes: 0

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country. Votes: 0

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough. Votes: 0

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war. Votes: 0

Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead? Votes: 0

Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengthening families, increasing the minimum wage, and ensuring equal pay for equal work. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated. Votes: 0

I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country and create decent paying jobs here. Votes: 0

This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool. Votes: 0

I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge. Votes: 0

Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage. Votes: 0

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano. Votes: 0

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 neighbors can get an increase in their wages. Votes: 0

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed. Votes: 0

Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values. Votes: 0

While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage for men-this legislation is a significant step forward. Votes: 0

If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests which do not concern Germany and are alien to it. Votes: 0

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 is the general feature of our society. Votes: 0

Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl. Votes: 0

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year. Votes: 0

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners. Votes: 0

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man Votes: 0

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage. Votes: 0

I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit. Votes: 0

My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.' Votes: 0

There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer Votes: 0

Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income. Votes: 0

I think the minimum wage outght to keep pace with inflation. I think the minimum wage is a good thing to have in our country and I think it ought to be updated. Votes: 0

Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice. Votes: 0

To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America! Votes: 0

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead! Votes: 0

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. Votes: 0

We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value. Votes: 0

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor. Votes: 0

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition. Votes: 0

The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15. Votes: 0

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 of private property and the right to investment profit. Votes: 0

Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world. Votes: 0

I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns. Votes: 0

An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage. Votes: 0

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level. Votes: 0

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 employers are just going to shut down. It's not true. Votes: 0

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 approval of the American voters to become president, either. Votes: 0

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast. Votes: 0

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women. Votes: 0

Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless. Votes: 0

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services. Votes: 0

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans. Votes: 0

In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough. Votes: 0

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. Votes: 0

Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which, only a hundred years ago, not even the richest nabobs dreamed. Votes: 0

The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ. Votes: 0

Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it. Votes: 0

It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely. Votes: 0

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken. Votes: 0

The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin - that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues. Votes: 0

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation. Votes: 0

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. Votes: 0

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. Votes: 0

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage. Votes: 0

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work. Votes: 0

The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1 Votes: 0

I believe that humanity has an uphill battle to wage in its fight to attain real health, and I honestly believe - from hard-earned experience - that homeopathy can offer some solution to this problem. Votes: 0

Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive. Votes: 0