Wages (or compensation, to include benefits) are prices of labor, and like all prices, wages measure scarcity. #Scarcity is the operative word here

#DavidYoungberg

Primary #greatness means character and contribution. Secondary greatness is prestige and wealth and position

#StephenRCovey

We embarked on a #mission to bring the 1st Amendment to the world. Little did we realize that our greatest struggle would come in 2010 as we tried to bring the 1st Amendment to the United States

#JulianAssange

#Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems

#StephenRCovey

The whole aim of practical #politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary

#HLMencken

The moral tragedy that has befallen Americans is our belief that it is okay for #government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another - that in my book is a working definition of slavery

#WalterEWilliams

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a #politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference

#HarryTruman

If all mankind minus one were of one #opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind

#JohnStuartMill

God save us from #idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners

#MaryDoriaRussell

In the long run, a hierarchical #society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance

#GeorgeOrwell

While it's true #science can't decide questions of value, that's because they can't be intellectually decided at all

#BertrandRussell

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas

#TSEliot

If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the #government to do it for you

#WilliamESimon

When government is given the power to determine what is acceptable #speech, we are operating out of the same totalitarian mindset that leads to dystopian hell

@BarryBrownstein

Of all enemies of true liberty, #war is most to be dreaded, because it comprises & develops the germ of every other

#JamesMadison

#Gratitude is an appreciation of the moments of good fortune that sustain our life every day

@JackKornfield

At the point where the #illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater

#FrankZappa

While the growth of #knowledge allows humans to improve their material conditions, it also increases the savagery of their conflicts

#JohnGray

Ours is the age of #substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions

#EricBentley

In wartime, #truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies

#WinstonChurchill