Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result…

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little…

— Rebecca West

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines,…

— Rebecca West

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

— Thor Heyerdahl

The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to…

— Herman Melville

“Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed 'domestic work' also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the…

— Kathleen Norris

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no…

— Friedrich Engels

We have to change men's expectations, as they grow up, regarding their share of domestic work, of child care, but also of elder care,…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“[D]emanding wages for housework (…) forced recognition of the fact that the domestic work which women do has economic value. But many feminists feel…

— Nivedita Menon

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of…

— Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable…

— Ted Dekker

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the…

— William Penn

Worthy is the one who remembers to thank the Lord for all His blessings; but admirable is the one who still thank God in…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

— Oscar Wilde

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith