Labour Quotes
622 Labour quotes by 397 unique authors
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Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology,…
— John Zerzan
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The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of…
— Philip Yancey
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I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
— Toby Young
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British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
— Rory Bremner
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The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the…
— Sir John Richard Hicks
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Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a…
— Arthur Scargill
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He who labours, prays.
— Saint Augustine
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All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral…
— Lajos Kossuth
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Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the…
— Neil Kinnock
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It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot…
— John Ruskin
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The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must…
— Clara Zetkin
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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
— Havelock Ellis
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
— Ben Jonson
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All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
— Herbert Spencer
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I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being…
— Peter Mandelson
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Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government…
— Lucy Powell
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
— Karl Radek
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The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat…
— Kim Young-sam
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