Labour Quotes - Page 25

• The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

  John Naisbitt

  Dinosaurs, Mergers, Appearance

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• I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Giving, Support

  "Blair endorses Brown as new Labour Party leader". www.cnn.com. May 12, 2007.

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• There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour - but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Perseverance, Men, Sea

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

  Ed Balls

  Government, Saving, London

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• Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Criticism, Sincere

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• The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Genius, Failing

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.75, DOSER Reads

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• It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Taken, Animal, Desire

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.

  Erlend Loe

  Men, Together, Months

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• Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills' - 'Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me' - 'Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from. Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives

  Alan Greenspan

  Lying, Moving, Ignorance

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• Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found.

  Rose Macaulay

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.75, A&C Black

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• The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Voice, Giving

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• Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater or less degree, the state of mind in which, after long labour, truth or beauty appears, or seems to appear, in a sudden glory - it may only be about some small matter, or it may be about the universe. I think that most of the best creative work, in art, in science, in literature, and in philosophy, has been a result of just such a moment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Plato, Philosophy

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• Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

  James Madison

  Wish, Slavery, Littles

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.161

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• Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

  Galina Ulanova

  Dance, Artist, Achievement

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• Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Fall, Class

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.412, Wildside Press LLC

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• I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

  Michael Faraday

  Weed, Science, Thinking

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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• Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they get five minutes religion to amuse them. This is the danger with the liberal thought.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Charity, Littles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4474, Manonmani Publishers

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• To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Mind, Privilege

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.197

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• It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Science, Discovery, Mind

  "Quantum Field Theory III: Gauge Theory: A Bridge between Mathematicians and Physicists". Book by Eberhard Zeidler, p. 439, August 17, 2011.

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• Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

  Havelock Ellis

  Work

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

  Voltaire

  Work, Evil, Vices

  Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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• If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.

  Peter Hain

  Thinking, Tough, Terrorism

  "Hain accused of playing politics with terror" by Press Association, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject for thirty years. That does show how lucky people can be. If there had been no ionosphere I would not have been standing here this morning.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Morning, Science, Years

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• If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Hate, Liars

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• Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Important, Trying, Each Day

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