Wages quotes
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"Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason."
"Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid."
"Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women."
"Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune."
"Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages."
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"It is the customer that pays the wages"
"A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally."
"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."
"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."
"Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker."
"Profits are better than wages."
"The wages of sin is alimony."
"Our praises are our wages."
"When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin."
"If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?"
"As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living."
"An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job."
"But what makes wage slaves? Wages!"
"When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages."
"Understanding is the wages of faith."
"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work."
"Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other."
"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants."
"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."
"At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages considerably lower than in 1979, when the neoliberal assault was taking off. That perfectly naturally causes resentment and fear, and combines with a tendency to blame the most vulnerable."
