Labour Quotes

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

— William Morris

“Life is a sacred labour of love.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Physical labour is a daily death”

— Simone Weil

“Those who work, knows the strength of labour.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Thank God who delivered us from harsh labour.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Many a man wants glory but fails to work.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

— Karl Marx

The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Labour is not to be looked down but to be taken care

— Regin H Singh

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

— John Naisbitt

I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

— David Blunkett

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

— Samuel Johnson

Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.

— Guy Standing

May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that…

— Harold Wilson

The end of free movement means that we will be able to consider the impact on the existing labour market when determining…

— Priti Patel

Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the…

— Dylan Thomas

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of…

— David Walliams

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.

— Lucy Powell

I believe the prayers of 30 years ago are not lost. We may not see the results of our labour or sacrifice…

— T. B. Joshua

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom…

— Wasif Ali Wasif

From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

— Anonymous

Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust.…

— Philip Hammond

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there…

— Christian Scott

“The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the…

— Karl Marx

I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone…

— Margaret Thatcher

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate…

— Lynne Reid Banks

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the…

— Alexander Pope

I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through…

— Joseph Muscat

“All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for…

— Michael Hureaux-Perez

Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of…

— James Henley Thornwell

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep…

— Juan Somavia

“Then a ploughman said, speak to us of work: in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to…

— Khalil Gibran

What appeals to me in The Deuce is some of the same things that made me interested in The Wire, which is…

— David Simon

I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any…

— Aneurin Bevan

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death.…

— Francis Bacon