Labour Quotes · Page 7

The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The true success is to labour.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Corbyn has reignited Labour.

— Katie Hopkins

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

— Garth Nix

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

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

— Joshua Reynolds

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

— Henry Van Dyke

We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile.

— Noam Chomsky

We will not try to out-Ukip Ukip. Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.

— Chuka Umunna

Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust

— John Prescott

A Labour Party that stops talking about social mobility has forgotten what it is for.

— Liz Kendall

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

— Nikola Tesla

I'm really keen to see a Labour government because there are many things to be done, not least pursuing a sensible Brexit…

— Hilary Benn

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very…

— Edmond Halley

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

— Roy Jenkins

I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime…

— Tony Blair

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits…

— George H. White

I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower…

— Thomas Malthus

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is…

— Vivienne Westwood

Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a…

— Patrick Duffy

The aim of all those who live in God is to please our Lord Jesus Christ and become reconciled with God the…

— Symeon the New Theologian

I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is…

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's…

— Lucy Powell

Child labour is a global problem that needs a response from all sides. This means measures to help reduce poverty, improve education,…

— Guy Ryder

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and…

— Lucy Powell

The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical…

— Aurel Stein

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,…

— C. S. Lewis

Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are…

— Isabel Allende

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future…

— Thucydides

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred…

— Samuel Johnson

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…

— Bertrand Russell

Labor party wants to make the economy fairer for everybody with a new industrial strategy and by investing in different parts of…

— Keir Starmer

“There is no competition in work. Many a man wants glory but fails to work.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Most Labour members are genuine anti-racists who oppose antisemitism.

— Clive Lewis

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

— B. R. Ambedkar

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

— Havelock Ellis