Labour Quotes
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Labour Quotes & Sayings
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It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off
— David Blunkett
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
— Ken Livingstone
I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?
— Marcus Aurelius
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
— Thomas Otway
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football
— Anthony Burgess
The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.
— Sir John Richard Hicks
There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.
— Roy Hattersley
I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.
— David Cunliffe
We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
— John Pilger
A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.
— Jeremy Corbyn
Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We are these people,wistful, ironical, wilful,
who have no part in
new-world reconstruction,
in the confederacy of labour. — Hilda Doolittle
The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.
— John F. Kennedy
I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.
— William T. Vollmann
Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? ... Manual labour.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
— Pope Leo XIII
I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.
— Kathleen Wynne
Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust
— John Prescott
Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.
— Galina Ulanova
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He had probably never thought about the difference between hard work and manual labour, either.
— Haruki Murakami
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
— James Whistler
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
— Virginia Woolf
In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.
— Thomas Jefferson
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.
— Andrew Carnegie
But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people.
— J.B. Priestley
When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.
— Douglas Alexander
Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The fruits of one's sweat and mental labour are always rewarding
— Haile Selassie
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
— Charles Babbage
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
— Karl Marx
Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No! You have hope! You have motive! Labour must be the cure, not sympathy! Labour is the only radical cure for rooted sorrow!
— Syrie James
The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour
— James Connolly
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
— Francis Bacon
The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present
— Karl Marx
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
— George Herbert
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
— Iain Duncan Smith
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
— Edward Sapir
I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament
— Roy Hattersley
We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.
— Douglas Alexander
When you divide the process, you harmonize the product
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.
— David Blunkett
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Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; ( ... )
— Tracie McMillan
I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
— Neil Oliver
But why, if the real weekly value of my labour is thirty hours of other people's work, would I ever work sixty hours?
— Paul Mason
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
— John Locke
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
— Tony Blair
Tired with the Labour of Far Travel We Have Come unto Our Own Home O
— Patrick Taylor
Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
— Enoch Powell
I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.
— Julie Burchill
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.
— Neil Kinnock
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
— Edmund Phelps
It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.
— Norman Tebbit
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.
— Samuel Smiles
If only you were born a hundred years ago, when you could have gone through days of natural labour before bleeding naturally to death,
— Liane Moriarty
Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
— Garth Nix
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
— William Morris
In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.
— John Richard Reid
The labour we delight in physics pain
— William Shakespeare
Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.
— Nicola Sturgeon
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
— Oscar Wilde
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born
— George Galloway
Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
— Bertolt Brecht
The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business.
— Peter Hargreaves
