Labour Quotes - Page 3

• When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Expression, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.349

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• So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

  Francis Maude

  Support, Competition, Gains

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• I once did hold it, as our statists do,
  A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much
  How to forget that learning; but, sir, now
  It did me yeoman's service.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Yeoman, Fairness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 33

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• The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.

  Walter Ciszek

  Education, Children, Simple

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• Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

  Diane Abbott

  Party, Issues, Abortion

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• We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Pain, Party, Years

  "Reviving the love Labour's lost" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

  David Ricardo

  Class, Judging, Wages

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.31

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• I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor.

  James Otis

  Hands, Sweat, Divine Right

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• I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.

  S. R. Nathan

  Struggle, Government, Labour Movement

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• One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Soul

  Victor Hugo (2016). “The Man Who Laughs”, p.303, Victor Hugo

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• Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

  Jo Grimond

  Country, Party, Wings

  Said in November 1953. "The Liberal Dilemma". Book by Alan Watkins, p. 91, 1966.

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• To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Thinking

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.453, Modern Library

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• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.

  Humphry Davy

  Mean, Men, Intellectual

  Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

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• After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

  William Henry Ashley

  Horse, Loss, Men

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• Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

  Francis Bacon

  Circles, Medicine, Disease

  "Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis".

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• As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.

  C. D. Broad

  Clever, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.

  Don King

  Determination, Frustration, Men

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• I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

  Paul Merton

  Thinking, Election, Vote

  "I think I'm sane" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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• The next General Election isn't about electing yet another Labour or Tory MP to join the hundreds of other Labour or Tory MPs in London. It will be about electing a candidate who will put solving people's problems before scoring political points. Someone who will fight for the future of our communities here in Clwyd West.

  Llyr Huws Gruffydd

  Fighting, Mps, People

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• If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election

  Len McCluskey

  Believe, Shade, Austerity

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• I've wanted to be an actress for as long as I can remember, and I can say I was almost born in the theatre. My mum went into labour while she was watching The Nutcracker Suite in New York - apparently I was kicking like mad.

  Sienna Miller

  New York, Nuts, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

  James Spader

  Mean, Acting, Alternatives

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Should, Goods

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.433, Princeton University Press

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• Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

  Paul Flynn

  Past, Politics, Certain

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• It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of man. Men have a sense of property: Property is necessary to their subsistence, and correspondent to their natural wants and desires; its security was one of the objects, that induced them to unite in society. No man would become a member of a community, in which he could not enjoy the fruits of his honest labour and industry.

  William Paterson

  Men, Rights, Community

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