Labour Quotes

622 Labour quotes by 397 unique authors

Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather… — Ernest Gellner
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used… — Thomas Clarkson
If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not â€˜live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died for you and… — Charles Simeon
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce… — Henry Mayhew
What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only… — James Sheridan Knowles
That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will… — Samuel Johnson
He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless… — Samuel Johnson
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born. — Horace
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was… — Richard Posner
Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic. — Max Stirner
If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear… — Karl Radek
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong. — Shirley Williams
No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and… — William Wilberforce
Ah, why Should life all labour be? — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and… — John Ruskin
To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. — Homer
Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble,… — Adam Lindsay Gordon
The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great… — Khalil Gibran
The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his… — Gertrude Jekyll
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or… — Umair Haque

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