"It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages."

Body, Difficulty, Pressure, Struggle

1

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages."

Exlpore more Body quotes

"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."

Michael Polanyi, Hungarian Scientist

Body, Community, Principles, Production

"Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Body, Life, Power, Truth, Happiness

"Modesty is the conscience of the body."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Body, Conscience, Modesty

"I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions."

Jock Sturges, American Photographer

Body,

"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Body, Mind

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Body, Mind

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Body, Information, Mind, State

"The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back."

Amitabh Bachchan, Indian Actor

Body, Religious, Remarkable, Wonder

"The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other."

Jean Savarin, French Lawyer

Body, Infinite

"One doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Body, Health, Neglect, Humor

Explore more quotes by Florence Kelley

"The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard."

Woman, Women, Work, Trade, Wages

"Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades."

Attitude, Women, Revolution, Generations

"On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home."

Home, Power, Brothers, Protection

"This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation."

Power, Women, Agitation, Nation

"It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages."

Body, Difficulty, Pressure, Struggle

"In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment."

Chance, Man, Order

"The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners."

Woman, Women, Commerce, Country, Fact

"In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades."

Body, Weakness

"Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life."

Life, Women, Effort, May