In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
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