William Morris Quotes About Labour

Quotes about: Labour

• I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.

  William Morris

  Art, Exercise, Giving

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

• The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

  William Morris

  Rewards, Life Is, Enough

  'News from Nowhere' (1891) ch. 15

• 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

  Men, Makers, Made

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.205, Cambridge University Press

• So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!

  William Morris

  Art, Lying, Hate

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

• It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.

  William Morris

  Work, Littles, Matter

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6349, Delphi Classics

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