Labour Quotes - Page 24

• But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

  Henry Mayhew

  Division, Branches, Firsts

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• What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Sports, Fire, Air

  James Sheridan Knowles (1837). “The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts”

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• Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep.

  Ernest Gellner

  Strong, Party, Sheep

  Ernest Gellner (1994). “Conditions of liberty: civil society and its rivals”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

  Vince Cable

  Party, Cities, Rural Areas

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• The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

  Clive Anderson

  Party, Four, Lasts

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• We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.

  Ben Chifley

  Fighting, Light, Hands

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• Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

  David Cameron

  Running, Party, Ideas

  "Put in a tight spot by the cat's backside" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2006.

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• 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.

  Dora Russell

  Party, Might, Common

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• Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors,
  And all this our very utmost toil
  Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength
  Whether in oxen or in men, we dull
  The edges of our ploughshares, and in return
  Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed,
  And so today the farmer shakes his head,
  More and more often sighing that his work,
  The labour of his hands, has come to naught.

  Lucretius

  Work, Mean, Men

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• Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Race, Differences

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• Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Baby, Men, People

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• Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.

  Julian Baggini

  Jobs, Real, Self

  "Why business needs to concentrate on value - not just profit". www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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• On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Thinking, Upset, Environmental

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• But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Division, Earth

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

  Garth Nix

  Charity, Virtue

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• For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

  Douglas Alexander

  Betrayal, Winning, Foundation

  "Labour must do more to be credible on economy, says Douglas Alexander" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour

  Peter Hain

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

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• All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

  Herbert Spencer

  Desire, Slavery, Coercion

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.37, VM eBooks

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

  Roy Hattersley

  Party, Years, Odd

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• Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Hard Work, Law, Creative

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• The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, People, Voting

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• I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.

  Ben Elton

  Baseball, Oasis, Vote

  1998 In The Radio Times, 18 Apr.

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• Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.

  Plotinus

  Cutting, Light, Perfect

  Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.47, Hayes Barton Press

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• Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

  Elizabeth David

  Preparation, Trouble, Good Food

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• Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Blessing, Suffering

  "The Satires".

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