Labour Quotes

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

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

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

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

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 global economic competition.

The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

Ive been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.

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 Labour movement generally.

Nobody can guarantee the real terms per pupil funding increase. In the Labour party's manifesto we know the figures don't add up.

The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

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.

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.

The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.