Labour Quotes

622 quotes by 397 authors

The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax… — Eric Kierans
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. — John Ruskin
Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have… — Robert E. Lee
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies. — Pope Leo XIII
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive… — James Madison
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his… — Thomas Jefferson
It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of… — William Paterson
Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing — Unknown Author
Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of… — Albert Einstein
Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are… — James Spader
I've wanted to be an actress for as long as I can remember, and I can say I was almost born in the theatre. My… — Sienna Miller
If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election — Len McCluskey
The next General Election isn't about electing yet another Labour or Tory MP to join the hundreds of other Labour or Tory MPs in London.… — Unknown Author
I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour. — Paul Merton
The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from… — Donella Meadows
If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my… — Don King
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in… — Thomas Paine
My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts… — J.R.R. Tolkien
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative… — John Hume

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