Labour Quotes - Page 18

• The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.

  Anthony of Padua

  Wings, Bird, Heaven

  St Anthony of Padua “St Anthony of Padua - The Sermons of St Anthony”, Free Catholic Books

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• I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Thinking, Periods, Private Sector

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• One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

  Stephen Fry

  Brave New World, Enemy, Unions

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• ... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

  John Ruskin

  Men, Hands, Tangible

  John Ruskin “The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools”

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• Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

  William Blake

  Art, Ignorance, Light

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.155, Wordsworth Editions

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• At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, Thinking, Years

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

  Neil Kinnock

  Government, Nuclear, Weapons

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• I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, People, Important

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• Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust

  John Prescott

  Economic, Stability, Replaced

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

  Neil Kinnock

  War, Labour Movement, World

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• I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Opportunity, Men, Two Nations

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• To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

  Confucius

  Thinking, Vain, Desolation

  Confucius (1996). “Le Lun Yü en français”

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• 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.

  Lewis Carroll

  Photography, Art, Writing

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.967, Race Point Pub

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• This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.

  Marcel Proust

  Passion, Mean, Pride

  Marcel Proust (1949). “Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained”

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• My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

  David Mamet

  Dad, Ideas, Coins

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• No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Believe, Passion

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Emile Durkheim

  Division, Social, Source

  Emile Durkheim (1973). “Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society”, p.110, University of Chicago Press

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• The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Artist, Numbers

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• Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the cheapness of provisions and labour.

  David Hume

  Country, Flying, Leaving

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• 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.

  Henry Ford

  Use, May, Want

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.116, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Missions, Britain

  Tony Blair (1997). “New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country”, Basic Books (AZ)

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

  Edward Heath

  Party, Labour Party, Wells

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• No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

  Michael Foot

  Leader, Political, Rising

  Michael Foot's remarks on Tony Blair, 1995.

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• I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

  George Galloway

  Growth, Saws, Birth

  2004 I'm Not the Only One.

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• Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.

  Thomas Malthus

  Agriculture, Corporations, Causes

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.33, University of Michigan Press

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