Labour Quotes

622 Labour quotes by 397 unique authors

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out… — John Williams
WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India… — Jairam Ramesh
I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I… — Andrew Lloyd Webber
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied… — David Mamet
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced… — Rosemary Mahoney
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a… — Richard Jefferies
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural… — James Stephens
One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new liberal… — Martin Jacques
There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping… — Martin Jacques
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the… — Martin Jacques
When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists… — Noreena Hertz
Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting… — Noreena Hertz
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions,… — James Fenimore Cooper
It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations. — Rebecca MacKinnon
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for… — David Blunkett
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never… — David Blunkett
Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left. — David Blunkett
My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political… — David Blunkett
For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities… — David Blunkett
We need dynamic and thriving businesses and a skilled and adaptable labour force to produce competitiveness and prosperity. — David Blunkett

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