Labour Quotes · Page 7

Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

— Karl Radek

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

— James Madison

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

— Thomas Otway

“A fruit that comes forth is the desire and joy for the labour of a farmer.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

— William Stanley Jevons

A lot of Labour people are telling me Labour is in poor shape.

— Martin McGuinness

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

— Tony Blair

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very…

— Edmond Halley

I'm really keen to see a Labour government because there are many things to be done, not least pursuing a sensible Brexit…

— Hilary Benn

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

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

The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no…

— Martin Jacques

“Improve working conditions, render to labor what is justly due to labor, and thereby give the people security, comfort, and leisure Then,…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy's [Corbyn] ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed…

— Ruth Smeeth

The aim of all those who live in God is to please our Lord Jesus Christ and become reconciled with God the…

— Symeon the New Theologian

I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy…

— Martin Luther

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is…

— Vivienne Westwood

Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a…

— Patrick Duffy

The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour,…

— Vladimir Lenin

The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to…

— Martin Luther

Labor party wants to make the economy fairer for everybody with a new industrial strategy and by investing in different parts of…

— Keir Starmer

“Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must…

— Augustus Toplady

“Overwork is repulsive to human nature—not work. Overwork for supplying the few with luxury—not work for the well-being of all. Work is…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Here, on a human face, appeared all the ruin following upon hopeless labour. Laveuve's unkempt beard straggled over his features, suggesting an…

— Émile Zola

There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future…

— Thucydides

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…

— Bertrand Russell

Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are…

— Isabel Allende

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

I've seen at first-hand what Labour Governments can achieve in power.

— Angela Rayner

I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat.

— Melvyn Bragg

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

— Samuel Johnson

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

— Narendra Modi

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

— Clare Short

Availability of labour below Minimum wages gives rise to corruption.

— Mak_786

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

— Leonardo da Vinci

For former Labour leaders, rousing a crowd was a superpower.

— Cathy Newman