Quotes About Wage Slavery

#1. The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.

Alex Pareene

#2. A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Noam Chomsky

#3. All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#4. As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!

Upton Sinclair

#5. Was there not wage slavery? Were there not the chains of financial oppression?

Colum McCann

#6. Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

Wendell Berry

#7. Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.

Michael Moore

#8. Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.

Dan Pearce

#9. And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All the past ages had accomplished was as nothing.

Aldous Huxley

#10. If a ray of light falls into a pigsty, it is the ray that shows us the muck and it is the ray that is offensive.

Ayn Rand

#11. There is nothing truly painful about this, except the knowledge that, eventually, you'll stop touching me. That's what hurts. Moira.

Edie Harris

#12. All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

Albie Sachs

#13. There's a ton you can learn about a person from how they deal with the absence of sound.

Katie McGarry

#14. I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career.

Chika Anadu

#15. Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Bernstein

#16. To all you who believe we shouldn't have a minimum wage
that the minimum amount you can be paid should be determined solely by your employer, we tried it once before: it was called slavery.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#17. The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1

Alexis De Tocqueville

#18. I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in the north are among those who would perpetuate the slavery of the wage workers

Albert Parsons

#19. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop ...
Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In

Eileen Granfors

#21. The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.

Sy Montgomery

#22. I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.

Jennifer Tilly

#23. Become more valuable to your marketplace at your job. Your job is full of opportunities. Find them! Make more money!

Carlos Roche

#24. It is no great feat for an economy to create a large number of very-low-wage jobs. Slavery, after all, was a full employment system.

Robert B. Reich