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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. -- St. Jerome
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. -- Elliott Carter
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. -- Karl Marx
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. -- David Friedman
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. -- James Hutton
Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat. -- Lucille Kallen
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns ... -- Margaret Halsey
Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed? -- Victoria Wood
Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here. -- Brad Bird
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable. -- John Lithgow
My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed. -- Francis Asbury
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. -- Edith Sitwell
Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed. -- Stephen Covey
People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them. -- Fred L. Turner
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. -- Joshua Reynolds
Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed. -- Romano Prodi
We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work. -- Theodore Zeldin
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. -- Ben Hecht
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man. -- Margery Allingham
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. -- Georges Bizet
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny. -- W. Clement Stone
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. -- Jeremy Bentham
You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed. -- Joss Whedon
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce. -- Joseph Hume
But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line. -- Bonnie Hunt
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season. -- Martin Van Buren
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. -- Charles Babbage
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. -- David Brainerd
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. -- Barry Commoner
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole. -- Arthur Keith
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it. -- James E. Casey
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. -- Charles Babbage
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. -- George Washington
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. -- Andrew Jackson
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left. -- Mort Kondracke
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day. -- J. D. Hayworth
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. -- Clara Zetkin
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. -- David Ricardo
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. -- H. L. Mencken
It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed. -- Jerry Lawler
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products. -- Henry Charles Carey
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. -- Marco Rubio
When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before. -- Nat Turner
See yourself as self employed. -- Pat Summitt
I've never been very fully employed either. -- Warren Buffett
A mind always employed is always happy. -- Thomas Jefferson
When men are employed they are best contented. -- Benjamin Franklin
By March, 70 percent of women would be employed. -- Patience Jonathan
Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly. -- Cherise Sinclair
Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity. -- Jim Blasingame
Your job as an actor is to stay employed. -- Benjamin Bratt
Lose no time; be always employed in something useful. -- Benjamin Franklin
I'm still technically employed by the National Broadcasting Company. -- Tina Fey
Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed's working hours. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity. -- Sun Tzu
All that time is lost which might be better employed. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is better to be idle than employed in ill. -- Norm MacDonald
I call that man idle who might be better employed. -- Socrates
Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it. -- Solomon Schechter
Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity. -- Horace
Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong. -- William Whewell
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed. -- Charles Spurgeon
The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed. -- Jeremy Taylor
Bob Bly is among the most accomplished self-employed copywriters in recent years. -- Steve Slaunwhite
I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting. -- John C. Reilly
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear. -- Clifford Geertz
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another. -- William Hazlitt
Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance. -- Zack Love
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. -- Richard Whately
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. -- Grover Norquist
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed. -- Samuel Johnson
All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed. -- Adam Smith
In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes. -- Robert Kiyosaki
We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil. -- Robert Aris Willmott
The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed. -- Samuel Beckett
Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend. -- Carlos Wilcox
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time. -- Thornton Wilder
capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things. -- John Wesley
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead. -- Tom Peters
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified. -- Emily Dickinson
Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them? -- Voltaire
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed. -- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth. -- Georgette Heyer
We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories. -- William Howard Taft
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. -- Samuel Johnson
If I could spend more months out of the year employed than unemployed, that would be nice. -- Colin Hanks
Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay. -- H. L. Mencken
Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach. -- Michel de Montaigne
To be paid, to be employed to be an enthusiast and be excited about existence is fantastic. -- Robin Ince
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless. -- Dominique Bouhours
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life. -- William Cowper
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. -- Thomas Jefferson
Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed. -- Matthew Henry
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. -- Samuel Johnson
Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither. -- Richard Barnet
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. -- Socrates
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. -- Joseph Addison
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves. -- Herbert Spencer
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed. -- Samuel Johnson
The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. -- Lord Chesterfield
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. -- Benjamin Rush
If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ. -- Charles Spurgeon
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed. -- Grant Bowler
Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America. -- George J. Borjas

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