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Quotes About Wages

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.
~ Idries Shah
Men whose ships were wrecked or who were pressed into the navy at sea rarely received any of the wages they were owed, spelling disaster for the families they left behind.
~ Colin Woodard
Low pay is a serious problem, and its victims need a genuine solution.
~ Emily Thornberry
To play for Manchester United in 1956 was not remotely of the same order of national prominence as to play for them half a century later. Not least because Taylor, Edwards, Viollet and the rest were on a basic wage of £15, with an appearance fee of £5 and a win bonus of £3.
~ Unknown
A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I work 40 hours a week to be this poor.
~ Unknown
I work the terraces, Miss Jones. I bring forth the champagne and the wine. I ensure that the chateau remains a perfect example of French architecture. I pay the wages of the workers. I give the orders and flourish the phantom whip, but I am only the caretaker of Satancourt and its cellar.
~ Violet Winspear
But the subordination must be to the armed vanguard of all the exploited, of all the toilers, i.e., to the proletariat. Measures must be taken at once, overnight, to substitute for the specific methods of "official administration" by state officials the simple functions of "workmen and managers," functions which are already fully within the capacity of the average city dweller and can well be performed for "workmen's wages.
~ Vladimir Lenin
All officials, without exception, elected and subject to recall at any time, their salaries reduced to the level of ordinary "workmen's wages" — these simple and "self-evident" democratic measures, while completely uniting the interests of the workers and the majority of the peasants, at the same time serve as a bridge leading from capitalism to socialism.
~ Vladimir Lenin
One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.
~ William Shakespeare
So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.
~ William Ernest Henley
Jesus' story makes no economic sense, and that was his intent. He was giving us a parable about grace, which cannot be calculated like a day's wages. Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.
~ Philip Yancey
God dispenses gifts, not wages. None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.
~ Philip Yancey
that God dispenses gifts, not wages. None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.
~ Philip Yancey
Jacob the trickster gets his due. After pulling off the ruse, he has to run for his life and spends 20 years in exile with his uncle. Uncle Laban then gives Jacob a dose of his own medicine by planting an unwanted sister in his wedding bed and by repeatedly changing his wages as head shepherd.
~ Philip Yancey
The hardworking poor should receive wages and bread.
~ Rudiger Safranski
Everyone has to earn their money one way or the other.
~ Bob Stoops
Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.
~ Janet Yellen
If there's more employment, people buy more.
~ Joe Kaeser
Our union helps ensure that we earn fair pay and benefits.
~ Sean Doolittle
Çevresini saran karanl?k, kalle? dünya birden gizli zenginliklerini sunuyormu?, ya?amdan hala, toplu sözle?menin saat ücreti, ek ücret,çocuk yard?m?, pahal?l?k yard?m? d???nda da bir ?ey beklenebilirmi? gibi geldi Marcovaldo'ya.
~ Italo Calvino
The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place
~ Ivan Illich
I know of no industrial society where women are the economic equals of men. Of everything that economics measures, women get less.
~ Ivan Illich
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to enquire. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer