Wage Labour Quotes

#1. Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

David Giuntoli

#2. We never thought the first movie would bomb.

Kevin McDonald

#3. The modern marketer is: an experimenter, a lover of data, a content creator, a justifier of ROI.

Kimberley Walsh

#4. The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

David Harvey

#5. I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

Helen McCrory

#6. We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.

E. Lockhart

#7. So why don't they face us ... examine our evidence, debate, talk ... act like real historians instead of thought-police? Why shut us out of the media, pass laws against our speaking, persecute us, sue us, and vilify us?

Randolph D. Calverhall

#8. My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together. This month we're taking meditation to free the mind. Last month it was Rolfing. Have you ever Rolfed, Tone?"
"Only after the school's shepherd's pie," I said.

Julie Anne Peters

#9. Nor can wage labour exist unless hired by capital.

Anonymous

#10. Every human being ask this question of himself

Sunday Adelaja

#11. I don't want you to explain. I want you to convince me I'm wrong. Or admit I'm right.

Chris Pavone

#12. As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Nick Lowe

#13. The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

David Harvey

#14. (By 'abstract labour' Marx means work done simply in order to earn a wage, rather than for the worker's own specific purposes. Thus making a pair of shoes because one wants a pair of shoes is not abstract labour; making a pair of shoes because that happens to be a way of getting money is.)

Anonymous

#15. You can touch me, but you can't hurt me.

Kelly Creagh

#16. When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#17. And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.

Paul Hamilton Hayne

#18. Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

David Harvey

#19. You know Nana, I searched and searched, but could never find the key that unlocked the way. And now that I've stopped looking, I've finally found it. Maybe the door will open for me.

Ai Yazawa

#20. A man may be poor; he may have nothing at all except his labour to sell; he may be a manual worker for a weekly wage, but in a free commonwealth he must enjoy as good a right as any lord, or prelate, or capitalist in the country to the integrity of his own political convictions.

Winston S. Churchill

#21. The essential difference between the various economic forms of society, between, for instance, a society based on slave-labour, and one based on wage-labour, lies only in the mode in which this surplus-labour is in each case extracted from the actual producer, the labourer. [6]

Karl Marx

#22. All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few or no persons, who could hire capital and do business for themselves would consent to labour for wages for another.

Lysander Spooner

#23. The essential difference between a society based on slave-labour and one based on wage-labour lies, Marx says, only in the manner in which this surplus-labour is extracted from the real producer, the worker.

Anonymous

#24. Everyone dies. That is a universal constant. The only variable is how one dies.

Chris De Pavilly