Labour Quotes

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. (Tony Blair)
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. View quote
Daniel Webster
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. View quote
John Ruskin
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. View quote
Voltaire
Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain. (Anthony the Great)
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. View quote
Adam Rickitt
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation. View quote
Carol Bellamy
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. View quote
Carol Bellamy
We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. ...The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success...lies in adhering to the old principles of the party. View quote
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong. View quote
Frederick William Faber
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. View quote
Harold Wilson
The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing. View quote
Harold Wilson
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence. View quote
Clement Attlee
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? View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants. (Jean-Baptiste Say)
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
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. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy. View quote
Vladimir Lenin