Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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• The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Works
  • Known
  • Locks

• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Labor

• The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Industry
  • Labor
  • Monarchy

• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Together
  • Competition
  • Labor

• Exercise is labor without weariness.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Exercise
  • Labor
  • Fitness

• Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.

  

  Walter Duranty
  • Fire
  • Labor
  • Hot

• There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Labor

• I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • You
  • Know
  • Lyrics

• The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Mechanical

• And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Black
  • Liberation
  • Division

• They worked hard to not give labor a dedicated slot today.

  

  Alan Young
  • Today
  • Labor
  • Worked

• For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Peace
  • Conclusion
  • Division

• Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • Giving
  • Army
  • Japanese

• You see a guy who is around 6'5, 290 lbs. on a Division I team. You might see a guy is an inch smaller, and who weighs the same. There is not too much of a difference.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Guy
  • Team
  • Division

• All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Nation
  • Labor

• I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • I Believe
  • Labor
  • Men's Rights

• We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Live
  • Generation
  • Labor

• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Fighting
  • Army
  • Labor

• This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Passion
  • Development
  • Labor

• Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Clock

• So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Happiness
  • Desires
  • Scheme

• The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Labor
  • Division
  • Industries