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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor.

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.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

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.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

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.