How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should… — John Milton Copy Share Image
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L,… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and… — Ron Davies Copy Share Image
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image