It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night… — Joe Bowen 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
It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I did the Labour thing because I wanted my community to be better off. I'm pretty sure people are aware of the… — AJ Tracey Copy Share Image
I grew up when Labour was in power and I was able to appreciate the values and the difference the government could… — Luciana Berger 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
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread,… — James Otis Copy Share Image
There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at… — Harriet Harman Copy Share Image
I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
“You got the eggs in you; the world is fully ready to celebrate the chicks out of your laying labour. Never give… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“It is cheaper and more efficient to replace labour than to reproduce it sequentially by fulfilling the rights of women workers to… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless. — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong. — Theresa May Copy Share Image
I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image