Wage Quotes

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. (Leo Tolstoy)
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity. View quote
U Thant
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. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. View quote
Christopher Lasch
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. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs.... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become. View quote
Brandon Mull
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. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. View quote
Christopher Lasch
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. View quote
Barbara Mikulski
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. (Russ Carnahan)
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. View quote
Sherrod Brown
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse. View quote
Howard Zinn
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Ludicrous concepts...like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary? View quote
Terry Jones
My home policy: I wage war. My foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the Earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted. View quote
Fatimah
From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace.. . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever. View quote
Elie Wiesel
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. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy...a banana republic. View quote
Paul Keating
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist. View quote
David Harvey
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. View quote
David Harvey
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. View quote
David Harvey
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live. View quote
Friedrich Engels