Labour Quotes · Page 16

Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone - not just its activists.

— Sadiq Khan

Well organised displays of spontaneous support is one of the New Labour machine's specialities.

— John McDonnell

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

— Lucy Powell

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

— Peter Mandelson

If people don't want blue-collar work, our labour costs will remain high and our competitiveness low.

— Abhijit Banerjee

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

— Grace Chatto

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

— Horace

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

— Anonymous

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was…

— John Hume

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

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

— David Blunkett

How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's…

— James Grahame

We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

— Hilda Doolittle

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

— Nick Clegg

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade…

— Robert Harris

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the…

— Samuel Johnson

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men…

— Bertrand Russell

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's…

— Lucy Powell

I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is…

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Child labour is a global problem that needs a response from all sides. This means measures to help reduce poverty, improve education,…

— Guy Ryder

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and…

— Lucy Powell

If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass…

— Adam Sedgwick

The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical…

— Aurel Stein

We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you…

— John Redwood

When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come…

— Jeremiah Burroughs

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before…

— Thomas George Bonney

“Philip thought of the countless millions to whom life is no more than unending labour, neither beautiful nor ugly, but just to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but…

— Anonymous

Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden…

— Friedrich Engels

The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts…

— Aleister Crowley

The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that,…

— Tony Benn

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

— James Beattie

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

— Michael Foot

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

— Thomas Jefferson

Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

— George Herbert

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

— Anthony Trollope

If you want to achieve a real labour of love, it can be painful, too.

— Lynne Ramsay

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Winston Churchill