What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim wisdom the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour for mankind employed and then when most you share it best enjoyed.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi raise aphids as livestock launch armies into war use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies capture slaves engage in child labour exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Capitalist production therefore develops technology and the combining together of various processes into a social whole only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour always inspired by the ideal.

If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science we must educate our masters labour and capital in art.

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence to avoid wasting time and labour and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.