“In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any ot...” — Joseph Hume Quote

“In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.”

“At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.”

“Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.”

“As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.”

“To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.”

“When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.”