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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

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

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong. — Shirley Williams

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

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

It's a labour of love. And you are both the labour and the love. — David Hieatt

Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory. — Lord Mountbatten

I'd laboured over it a long while, and labour brings a thing near the heart's core. — Mary Webb

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

Life is beyond hunting. And the Labour of gathering. It's all about love in the light of Life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons. — Lily Graham

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

If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that. — Nigel Farage

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 think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector. — Kathleen Wynne

It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election. — Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy. — John Redwood

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. — Carol Bellamy

If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains. — Robert Herrick

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. — John Mason Brown

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes. — Alistair Darling

Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects? — Nicola Sturgeon

Nothing falls into a man's lap from heaven. It is from labour that life grows. — Adolf Hitler

I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights. — Gisela Stuart

Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost — Cassandra Clare

I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office. — Jonathan Powell

There's an art in every labour. — Ellis Peters

Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night's beloved in this earthly labour of the day. — Novalis

Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point? — Nicola Sturgeon

How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song. — James Grahame

My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better. — Martin Freeman

What we should lament is not the loss of houses or of land, but the loss of men's lives. Men come first; the rest is the fruit of their labour. — Thucydides

I'm not sure filming a birth is as hard as actual labour, but it's a really long, arduous day! — Helen George

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

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] — Winston S. Churchill

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

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. — John B. S. Haldane

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour ... — Swami Vivekananda

What man's labour cannot do in ten years, GOD's favour can settle it in ten seconds. — Osunsakin Adewale

in this country, who's got the most guns - you and Lloyd and the Labour Party, or the Conservatives with the army and the police on their side? — Ken Follett

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. You that; we this way. — William Shakespeare

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers. — William Morris

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour. — Mahatma Gandhi

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny. — Kenneth Branagh

...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer.

{On the benefit of John Napier's logarithms.} — Pierre-Simon Laplace

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment. — George Osborne

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova, "Her sanctioned guardian."
"You got cheap foreign labour to protect Lissa? — Richelle Mead

What happens in Bermondsey on February 24th will be a pointer to the rest of the country as far as Labour's prospects are concerned. — Peter Tatchell

Why play, lounge or labour in a social wasteland? It's toxicity is contagious, and no respecter of persons. Fall back! — T.F. Hodge

That's not hard work. It's just manual labour," Nagasawa said with finality. "The "hard work' I'm talking about is more self-directed and purposeful. — Haruki Murakami

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose. — Neil Young

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. — Peter Mandelson

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

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

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

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

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 Â£5 per thousand, which was slave labour. — Neil Oliver

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The fruits of one's sweat and mental labour are always rewarding — Haile Selassie

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf

Och, here is the gauger newly from London, and we hae Clunes making couthy with him, nae respect fur the fact it's our labour going intae those taxes. — Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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