Labour Quotes · Page 15

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

— David Harvey

The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

— Vince Cable

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

— Kathleen Wynne

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

— Wes Streeting

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

— William Hague

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

— John Milton

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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Increasing student numbers must be a central plank of the Labour manifesto, backed up by action, not just well-meaning words.

— Wes Streeting

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and…

— John Owen

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite…

— George Osborne

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

— Tony Benn

I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that…

— Samuel Johnson

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with…

— David Ricardo

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in…

— Anita Roddick

Technology is just one of the factors affecting the world of work. Economics, demographics, sociological trends, and government policies are four other…

— Alain Dehaze

If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with…

— John Gerard

Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength…

— Lucretius

I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the…

— William Morris

LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural…

— David Ricardo

Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people…

— Douglas Alexander

Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning…

— Jonathan Trigell

Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being…

— Esther McVey

I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use.…

— Samuel Johnson

Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with…

— James Dwight Dana

All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order…

— Samuel Beckett

As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my…

— Anonymous

You know, the technology was at the right place for us to build this world. The most difficult thing about doing The…

— Chris Sanders

Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and…

— Rudolf Rocker

It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which…

— Samuel Johnson

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

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

— Aneurin Bevan

Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller…

— Plutarch

I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got…

— Ben Elton

All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing…

— George Galloway