Labour Quotes

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

He who labours, prays.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

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

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