Labour Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 all.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off.

Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Full and unhesitating implementation of the report's findings must now follow. I call upon the Labour Party to guarantee that there will be zero tolerance of antisemitism.

How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election

If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.