"Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition." ― John Ruskin Topic(s): Work Tags: scoured, slaves More From John Ruskin "The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education." "He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin." "Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them." More In Work "In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: ‘These children want to work, these people want to employ them… what is your problem? It’s not as if anyone has kidnapped them…’"― Brian Eno "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."― Robert Frost "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."― Bertrand Russell