“Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless?” — Henry Dircks Copy Share Image
You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow. — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats. — Malcolm Rifkind Copy Share Image
I was born into the Labour party. I was delivering leaflets by the age I could reach the letter box. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Resistance to Brexit is the logic of everything Labour stands for. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was… — John Hume Copy Share Image
It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
Liberation and equality will never come from the top down but through organising from the ground up, and our Labour movement has… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics.… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
“We are now more Socialist in many ways than any other developed country outside the Communist bloc—in the size of the public… — Keith Joseph Copy Share Image
Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Let your rest be perfect in its season, like the rest of waters that are still. If you will have a model… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress. — John Burns Copy Share Image
I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour. — Neil Oliver Copy Share Image
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Labour can no longer impose a future on the country, instead it must negotiate one. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
