Wage Quotes - page 2

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife. (John Henry Newman)
The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie -- but only if she is paid the minimum wage. View quote
Irving Kristol
The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything-on terrorism, drugs, even poverty-has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be? View quote
Glenn Greenwald
When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases. View quote
Erik Erikson
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. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
One is all for religion until one visits a really religious country. Then one is all for drains, machinery, and the minimum wage. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate[s] the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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. View quote
James Callaghan
Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Wage war on death. Live for love. (Ted Dekker)
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. View quote
Arthur Henderson
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. View quote
George Vithoulkas
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage. View quote
Edmund Phelps
Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this too right alongside of him. View quote
Ivanka Trump
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. View quote
William Vickrey
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. View quote
Jack Kemp
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. View quote
Bill Pascrell
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. View quote
Bill Pascrell
House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year? (Bill Pascrell)
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938. View quote
Bill Pascrell
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. View quote
Barbara Lee
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage. View quote
Benjamin Jealous
The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box. View quote
Christine Pelosi