Labour Quotes

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.

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 them to any system

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

People can say what they want in the Labour Party.

...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous.

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.