History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
William MorrisThe true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William MorrisNothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
William MorrisI 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 MorrisWhat I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'
William Morris