66 Quotes About Wages

  • Author Mary Barnett Gilson
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    ... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.

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  • Author Benjamin Harrison
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    There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

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  • Author Cullen Hightower
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    A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.

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  • Author Ivan Illich
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    The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place

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  • Author Gary Lineker
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    You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

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  • Author Karl Marx
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    No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

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  • Author Tim Powers
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    The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

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  • Author Chris Rock
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    There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't some people would not get paid money. They would work all week for two loaves of bread and some Spam.

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