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“In recent years, hours of work have been reduced, holidays have been increased, the age of entry into employment has gone up, and above all, our general health and expectation of life as a people have markedly improved. It is a natural corollary of these changes that we should work longer and retire later.”

People Should Years Has Beens Age Hours Natural Gone Expectations Employment Holiday Retiring Entry

Author:Hugh Gaitskell

“The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.”

“The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.”

Amount Great Things Employment Software

Author:Jaron Lanier

“It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.”

House Hours Eight Employment Pleasant Counting

Author:Thomas Malthus

“The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.”

Mean Persons Evil Poor Produce Balance Property Tendencies Employment Servant Remedy Consumption Disturbance Workmen Landlord

Author:Thomas Malthus

“Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise.”

Men Long Art War Energy Fields Industry Crowds Employment Peaceful Enterprise Commerce Incapable Restless Crushed Adventurous Repose Stirring

Book:Pioneers of France in the New World

Source: Pioneers of France in the New World

“Anyone who wishes to combine domestic responsibilities and paid employment with the least stress and most enjoyment might start by pondering this paradox: the first step to better functioning is to stop blaming herself for not functioning well enough.”

Firsts Wells Enough Might Wish Responsibility Steps Stress Paid Blame Employment Enjoyment Paradox First Steps Pondering

Book:Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

Source: Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

“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.”

People Courses Standards Gold Employment Alternatives Goodbye Latter Saying Goodbye Selected Gold Standard

Author:Oswald Mosley

“Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures.”

Figures Tomorrow Dollars Driven Employment Caution

Author:Hugh S. Johnson

“The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.”

Want May Girl Rights Economic Aspect Employment Womens Rights Resolute

Author:R. Heber Newton

“Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional changes, especially regarding wage-setting and other aspects of the employment relationship, would be essential if full employment was to be sustained.”

Ifs Would Be Political Turns Economic Essentials Aspect Fundamentals Setting Settings Employment Advent Neoliberalism

Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

“Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.”

Men Soul Individual Christ Employment Ministers

Book:Sermons on Different Subjects: Delivered in England and America

Source: Sermons on Different Subjects: Delivered in England and America

“The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from its independent thinkers: Striking all existing public and private debt from the books across the "entire planet"; elimination of all international borders; free college education; a guaranteed "living wage" for all regardless of employment; an end to free trade; trillions in additional spending for infrastructure and ecological restoration; and ending the fossil fuel economy.”

“I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.”

World Years Children Long Reason School Lasts Easy Break Endure Painful Employment Preparation Thirteen

Book:A Language Older Than Words

Source: A Language Older Than Words

“War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.”

Ifs Men War Peace Soldier Profit Profession Employment Obliged Reap

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.”

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.”

“Capital, and the question of who owns it and therefore reaps the benefit of its productiveness, is an extremely important issue that is complementary to the issue of full employment... I see these as twin pillars of our economy: Full employment of our labor resources and widespread ownership of our capital resources. Such twin pillars would go a long way in providing a firm underlying support for future economic growth that would be equitably shared.”

“We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.”

Wisdom Evil Politics Economy Institutions Improvement Mediums Employment Liberalism Metals Banking Idleness Unsafe Precious Metal

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“Full employment is a socially hazardous goal. In effect, it aspires to restore through political expedients the pre-industrial state of toil that science, engineering, technology and modern management are pledged to overcome.”

States Wisdom Political Politics Goal Technology Economy Modern Effects Overcoming Management Employment Liberalism Engineering Aspire Toil

Book:Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.”

World Ideas Problem Wisdom Politics Wealth Economy Produce Concepts Labor Function Property Solve Employment Liberalism Nonsense Ownership Blindness Amplify Property Ownership

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“The owners of labor, on the other hand, are being taught, by the most powerful and well-publicized examples, that the highest rewards are not for production, but for the employment of organized power to take over a share of what others produce.”

Source: The New Capitalists: A Proposal to Free Economic Growth from the Slavery of Savings

“... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.”

Giving Wisdom Jobs Politics Company Economy Taxes Labor Increase Bills Productivity Employment Liberalism Ownership Emergencies Incentives

Author:Jack Kemp

“We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership, because in order to be secure in their human rights, people need access to property rights.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970

“It may seem strange, but Congress has never developed a set of goals for guiding Federal Reserve policy. In founding the System, Congress spoke about the country's need for "an elastic currency." Since then, Congress has passed the Full Employment Act, declaring its general intention to promote "maximum employment, production, and purchasing power." But it has never directly counseled the Federal Reserve.”

“Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?”

Want Wisdom Politics Nations Wealth Millions Economy Misery Employment Desperate Liberalism Controlled Privileged

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.”

Wells Growth Economy Financial Congress Missions Critical Employment Preserves Stability Efficient Stable Maximum Output Financial System Price Stability

Author:Ben Bernanke

“And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home. When he asks for colleges to educate ministers, tell him you must educate woman, that she may do away with the necessity of ministers, so that they may be able to go to some useful employment.”

May Home Able Purpose Asks Atheism College Higher Missions Positive Atheism Employment Ministers Educate Missionary

Author:Ernestine Rose

“Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship.”

People Ifs Home Jobs Capable Training Dollars Prison Billions Employment Entrepreneurship Neighborhood Rehabilitation Job Training

Author:Van Jones

“In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.”

Years Two Courses Millions Four Months Periods Six Program Eight Employment Quarters Four Years Unemployed

Author:Adolf Hitler

“My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.”

Jobs Opportunity Projects Congress Employment Neighborhood Components Residents Developers Employment Opportunities

Author:Hakeem Jeffries

“Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.”

Ifs Men Want Two Enough Trouble Produce Ships Employment Two Things Abundance

Author:Plautus

“Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.”

“Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.”

Men Hard Enough Play Company Hard Work Constant Employment Laziness Quests Diversion

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.”

World Firsts Made Ends Self Names Fame Employment Rough Draught

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.”

Needs Soul Reading Novel Conviction Employment Immortal Cake Gardening Occasional Needles Visiting Sustenance Sponges Immortal Soul

Book:Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix

Source: Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix

“An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.”

“A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.”

Giving Wells Hands Law Contrary Employment Divinity Professors Commerce Multitudes

Book:The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.”

Men Fall He Man Falling In Love Employment Plenty Occupation Chill

Author:Ovid

“If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]”

Ifs Love Ends Age Safe Amor Employment Yield Tutus

Author:Ovid

“A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.”

Humans Running Lines Deals Humble Employment Chairs Electric Thrones Stretching Needlework

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.”

World Opportunity Destruction Employment Civilized Delightful Constructive

Book:Mrs. Miniver

Source: Mrs. Miniver

“it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.”

Might Happened Regret Employment

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.”

May Soul Age Life Is Work Youth Pride Empty Active Employment Indifference Idle Grounded Weariness Degenerates Ardor Youth Life Age Life

Author:Leopold Hartley Grindon

“It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.”

World Should Facts Sin Saint Employment Deprived Console

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.”

Ifs Men World Would Be Work Sorrow Men And Women Employment Wickedness

Book:My own times

Source: My own times

“Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.”

Persons Acting Office Charity Employment Engaged

Book:The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin

Source: The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin

“Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.”

Thinking Men Different Employment Fortunate Different Things

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.”

May Important Done Problem Economic Fields Serious Harm Instance Employment Superstitions Inflation Magnitude

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek