Labour Quotes

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind.

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one.

We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.

The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

What happens in Bermondsey on February 24th will be a pointer to the rest of the country as far as Labour's prospects are concerned.

Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.

It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.

The true success is to labour.

The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people...

I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.

Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.

Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?