Labour Quotes · Page 30

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

— Henry Ford

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

— Neil Oliver

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

— John Burns

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

— Jeremy Corbyn

The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

— Malcolm Rifkind

I was born into the Labour party. I was delivering leaflets by the age I could reach the letter box.

— Emily Thornberry

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

— Anand Sharma

I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name…

— Steven Morrissey

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought…

— Colleen McCullough

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it…

— John Ruskin

[On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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

— Wes Streeting

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your…

— David Brainerd

I am nothing if not a loyalist. After 46 years in the Labour party, I've grown weary of the cry: 'If only…

— David Blunkett

“The strength of your obstacle determines the weight of your potentials. The greater your potentials, the heavier your dunamis power must be.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Douglas Alexander

“Why are you all wasting human labour and the world’s wealth in building machinery to commit mass murder – creatures that for…

— Eden Phillpotts

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work,…

— Karl Marx

Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in…

— Thomas Jefferson

The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which…

— Adam Smith

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly…

— Lord Kelvin

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to…

— Ivan Pavlov

“Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every previous form of society was…

— Leon Trotsky

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts…

— Virginia Woolf

“It is not possible even at great length to “pot” The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two … It…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

If there existed only one man or woman who did not love the Saviour, and if that person lived among the wilds…

— Charles Spurgeon

The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every…

— Gertrude Jekyll

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

— James Dwight Dana

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

Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by…

— Umair Haque

Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to…

— John Bunyan

If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election

— Len McCluskey

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

— Jo Grimond

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

— Sarah Bernhardt

A marriage is the official licence to exploit the labour of wedded husband.

— Vikrant Parsai

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

— Lucy Powell

Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.

— Grace Chatto

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

— Shirley Williams

The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

— Tony Benn

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

— Winston Churchill