Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.
Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.
As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .
Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.
To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.
