Health Quote by John Ruskin

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two…

— John Ruskin

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. ”

— Adam Smith

“Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without…

— W.H. Auden

“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if…

— Ford Madox Ford

“Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more…

— Edmund Burke

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the…

— Bertrand Russell

“The modern age has carried with it a theoretical glorification of labor and has resulted in a factual transformation of the whole of society…

— Hannah Arendt

“It is the wretched way people have of setting up a claim to happiness that ruins everything in this world. A man will make…

— Johann Heinrich Merck

“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed…

— Bertrand Russell

“We either make ourselves miserable, or make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

— Carlos Castaneda