Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee… — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda,… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population.… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power. — John Redwood Copy Share Image
Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through… — Joseph Muscat Copy Share Image
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food,… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them… — Frank Dobson Copy Share Image
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
