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Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people’s employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.
Oswald Mosley1896–1980Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had returned Britain to the gold standard and Mosley believed this would lead to unemployment, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 143.
- Clever Jabs
I may be only a “fish and chip shop lady”, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.
Pauline Hansonborn 1954Maiden Speech as the Member for Oxley (1996)
- Clever Jabs
It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.
George C. Marshall1880–1959The Marshall Plan Speech (1947)
- War & Peace
There is no wilderness where I can hide from these things, there is no haven where I can escape them; though I travel to the ends of the earth, I find the same accursed system⁠—I find that all the fair and noble impulses of humanity, the dreams of poets and the agonies of martyrs, are shackled and bound in the service of organized and predatory Greed!
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Money
The working-man was to fix his hopes upon a future life, while his pockets were picked in this one; he was brought up to frugality, humility, obedience⁠—in short to all the pseudo-virtues of capitalism.
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter XXXIIn context
- Religion
The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter IIn context
- Work
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Justice
- Work
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Work
What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Politics
Your sheep, which are naturally mild, and easily kept in order, may be said now to devour men and unpeople, not only villages, but towns
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Animals
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Oliver Goldsmith1728–1774The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
- Money
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1921–2021In 1981, in reference to an economic recession, as quoted in “Long line of princely gaffes”, BBC News (1 March 2002).
- Work