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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

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital. — Vladimir Lenin

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich. — Mahatma Gandhi

Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market. — Noam Chomsky

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money. — Frank Dobson

The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned. — Roy Hattersley

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

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

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure. — Karl Marx

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

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party. — Johann Lamont

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. — David Harvey

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

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough? — William Morris

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

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

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

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up. — Michael Faraday

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

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

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour. — Bertolt Brecht

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

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour. — W. Somerset Maugham

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

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. — Clara Zetkin

Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do. — Charles Wesley

A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. — Karl Marx

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. — Anonymous

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. — Samuel Johnson

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. — Karl Marx

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation. — Paracelsus

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing — Paul Flynn

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. — Diane Abbott

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction. — Peter Porter

Where there is most labour there is not always most life. — Havelock Ellis

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. — Joseph Hume

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

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. — Nicola Sturgeon

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock

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

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two ... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism. — Doris Lessing

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. — Enoch Powell

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions. — Mahatma Gandhi

Tired with the Labour of Far Travel We Have Come unto Our Own Home O — Patrick Taylor

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. — Tony Blair

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — John Locke

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament — Roy Hattersley

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us. — Henry Ford

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. — Horace

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid Â£5 per thousand, which was slave labour. — Neil Oliver

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

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party. — William Hague

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left. — David Blunkett

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction. — Mahatma Gandhi

When you divide the process, you harmonize the product — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves. — Edward Heath

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour. — Gottfried Leibniz

I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments. — George Osborne

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister. — Neil Kinnock

The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business. — Peter Hargreaves

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue. — Garth Nix

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. — John Milton

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

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family. — Mahatma Gandhi