Labour Quotes - Page 22

• Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment.

  Friedrich Engels

  Garden, Hands, Agriculture

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• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  Edmond Halley

  Distance, Earth, Sun

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• If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Empathy, Tables

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.94, 谷月社

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• I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

  Michael Foot

  Thinking, Government

  Michael Foot's election call, February 21, 1974.

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• I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering... I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside... what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.

  Michael Foot

  Strong, Party, Want

  BBC's "Panorama", March 22, 1976.

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• But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

  Alfred Marshall

  Real, Men, Purpose

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they are not to be charged with having spent their time in vain; their example contributed to inspire emulation, and their miscarriage taught others the way to success.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Miscarriage, Necessary Use

  Samuel Johnson (1889). “Select Essays”

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• If there existed only one man or woman who did not love the Saviour, and if that person lived among the wilds of Siberia, and if it were necessary that all the millions of believers on the face of the earth should journey there, and every one of them plead with him to come to Jesus before he could be converted, it would be well worth all the zeal, labour, and expense. If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Journey, Men

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• I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Children, Party, Moving

  In Michael Foot 'Aneurin Bevan' (1973) vol. 2, ch. 11

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• Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

  Patrick Duffy

  Couple, Work, Nice

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Political, Doe, Politics

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.269, University of Virginia Press

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• Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
  Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
  And for thy maintenance commits his body
  To painful labour both by sea and land,
  To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
  Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
  And craves no other tribute at thy hands
  But love, fair looks and true obedience;
  Too little payment for so great a debt.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

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• What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Book, Writing, Sweat

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• I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

  Roy Hattersley

  Party, Fighting, Bitter

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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Men, Fruit

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• The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements

  Tony Blair

  Law, Parent, Understanding

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• It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported

  David Ricardo

  Country, Heart, Principles

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• Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Motivational, Blessed, Blessing

  "The works of Henry Van Dyke".

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• The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Nature, Men

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• No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

  Charles Babbage

  Degrees, Lasts, Measurement

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.119, Cambridge University Press

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• The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax privileges, and appropriate labour legislation and market support to attract a commitment and investment.

  Eric Kierans

  Commitment, Government, Support

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• Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

  John Ruskin

  Joy, Sorrow

  'Time and Tide' (1867) letter 5

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

  Jo Grimond

  Party, Believe, Political

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• How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

  Andrew Marvell

  Winning, Men, Tree

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 1

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

  Theresa May

  Tired, Government, People

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