Wage Quotes

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Peace, War

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.
John F. Kennedy

Care, Children, Minds

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.
Barack Obama

Work, Family, Health

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The real minimum wage is zero.
Thomas Sowell

Real, Zero, Minimum

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

War, Try, Conscience

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.
Douglas MacArthur

War, Cannot, Opinion

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
P. J. O'Rourke

Education, Health, Positive

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson

Another, Price, Increase

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
David Byrne

Time, Musicians, Modest

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
Margaret Sanger

Women, Care, Children

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

Long, Two, Brave

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.
Christopher Lasch

Family, Single, Law

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

Life, Family, Same

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.
Jack Kemp

Different, Between, Effort

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.
Dick Cheney

Control, America, Republican

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.
John Malkovich

Different, America, Living

Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
Joe Biden

America, Another, Keep

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.
John L. Lewis

System, Investment, Communism

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
Christopher Lasch

Family, Last, Three

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.
William J. H. Boetcker

Real, Security, Unless

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
William J. H. Boetcker

Down, Cannot, Pulling

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.
John Sununu

Reality, Reason, Far

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.
Andrew Cuomo

Public, Taxes, Increase

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.
Barbara Mikulski

Best, Job, Thought

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.
Graham Greene

War, Beautiful, Successful

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.
Lucy Powell

Work, Last, Getting

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.
Sherrod Brown

Anyone, Knows, Pay

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Charles Evans Hughes

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.
Alexander Smith

Work, Fair, Happens

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