Labour Quotes

622 quotes by 397 authors

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected — Roy Jenkins
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life — Roy Jenkins
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.… — Anthony Trollope
We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as… — Alan Greenspan
The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners. — Margaret Thatcher
We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all… — Vladimir Lenin
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour,… — Henri Poincare
The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia.… — Colleen McCullough
All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be… — Lysander Spooner
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the… — John Smith
Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow… — John Smith
The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems… — Andrew Marr
To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of… — Kamala Markandaya
Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back… — James Connolly
State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers,… — James Connolly
The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour — James Connolly
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter,… — Robert Owen
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others. — Robert Owen
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. — Frederic Raphael
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of… — Hendrik Verwoerd

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