Labour Quotes · Page 12

There is no future for the Labour party in Corbynism without Corbyn.

— Wes Streeting

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

— Arnold Bennett

“Do all the work you can, while there is grace of strength.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

— Roy Hattersley

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

— John Locke

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

— Johann Lamont

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

— Samuel Smiles

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

— Anonymous

I grew up when Labour was in power and I was able to appreciate the values and the difference the government could…

— Luciana Berger

The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a…

— George Galloway

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

— Harold Wilson

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for…

— Andrew Eldritch

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Oh, I could never leave the Labour party. I could no longer leave the Labour party than leave my own family.

— Liz Kendall

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he…

— Edward Carpenter

I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering...I…

— Michael Foot

There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And…

— Edmund Spenser

Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like…

— Dorothy Osborne

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as…

— Anonymous

People are fed up with Labour for taking them for granted for far too long, they are fed up of too much…

— Willie Rennie

The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick…

— Harold Wilson

As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for…

— Kevin Rudd

The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the…

— Walter Ciszek

“Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination…

— John Tyndall

The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who…

— Edward Gibbon

What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who…

— Charles Churchill

Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour…

— Edward Gibbon

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For…

— Noam Chomsky

Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. [...] To drive children into labour is to…

— Steven Erikson

Labour's mission is to democratise Britain: but first, it must surely democratise itself.

— Owen Jones

The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.

— Margaret Thatcher

Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.

— Robert Herrick

I don't want to manage the labour movement, I want to unleash it.

— Clive Lewis

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

— Tony Blair

“The services render by different souls shows the diversity of labour for the development of society.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Welfare's just one of the problems Labour failed to tackle when they were in government.

— Grant Shapps

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

— David Harvey