To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved… — Peter Mandelson Copy Share Image
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs -… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government,… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this… — Ron Davies Copy Share Image
So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete… — Francis Maude Copy Share Image
“إن الطريق إلي الحقيقة يمر من القلب، لا من الرأس فأجعل قلبك لا عقلك دليلك الرئيسي ، وجه .. تحد ,, وتغلب… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. [...] To drive children into labour is to… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image