Labour Quotes

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.

In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.

May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.

Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

Learn to labour and to wait.

We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

They [the Kochs] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational corporation. So they are on a different wavelength.

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night is different, the people that you work with are all tremendous individuals.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.

Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods is over.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.