Unpaid Quotes

“The distinction between "paid labor" and "housework" implied in working-class men's yearning for the domestic ideal persisted in later-nineteenth-century analyses of women's unpaid labor and was eventually replicated in Capital. Because wives' work was laregely unpaid, and because husbands came to the marketplace as the "possessors" of their wives' labor, Marx did not address the role of housework in the labor exchange that led to surplus value. Neither did he attend to the dynamics that permitted the husband to lay claim, in the price of his own labor, to the value of his wife's work.”

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”

“Interns, unite: you have nothing to lose but your unpaid positions!”

“A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.”

“Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.”

“We were awfully poor. But we had a lot of things that money can't buy . . . like unpaid bills.”

“There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.”