Wage Earner Quotes

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You can no longer define your manhood by whether you're on a nine-to-five job or you're making more money than your wife.

My parents never went to college. My dad started as an hourly worker.

I have been working since I was 19.

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

SpongeBob is a kid living an adult life. He has a job. Kids think being a fry cook is a great job.

The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album.

I come from a blue collar background.

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

I know of only three ways of living in society: one must be a beggar, a thief, or a wage earner.

The proportion of mental workers increases with the cultural development of the people…. The capitalist, or entrepreneur contributes mental labor to his enterprise. His work is that of organizing and managing the business. The wage-earner’s contribution consists chiefly of physical labor.