Labour Quotes

622 Labour quotes by 397 unique authors

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. — Mao Zedong
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
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the… — Clara Zetkin
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with… — Julian Baggini
On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically,… — Geoff Mulgan
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope
Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue. — Garth Nix
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. — Voltaire
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has… — Arthur Conan Doyle
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of… — John Berger
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers. — William Morris
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? — Thomas Hardy
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our… — Tom Hodgkinson
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was… — Douglas Adams
Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep; Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of… — William Shakespeare
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the… — Roland Barthes
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater… — Bertrand Russell

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