Labour Quotes - Page 30

• No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Want, Pennies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.55, Rajpal & Sons

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• Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

  Polly Toynbee

  Happiness, Water, Challenges

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.

  Clara Zetkin

  Depressing, Children, Two

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• First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

  Anita Roddick

  Fun, Opposites, Firsts

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

  Noel Coward

  Cheer, Fall, History

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• There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain satisfaction in being elected... but the man who steps into the English Parliament takes his place in a pageant that has ever been filing by since the birth of English history... York or Lancaster, Protestant or Catholic, Court or Country, Roundhead or Cavalier, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Labour or Unionist, they all fit into that long pageant that no other country in the world can show.

  Josiah Wedgwood

  Country, Men, English History

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• We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

  Clare Short

  Government, Needs, Chance

  "It's time for Tony Blair to go" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2003.

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• The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

  Ed Miliband

  Attitude, Marijuana, Ideas

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.

  Enver Hoxha

  Communication, Sacrifice, Electric Power

  "Selected Works, 1941 - 1948" by Enver Hoxha, Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, vol. I, 1974.

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• Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, Becoming, Brainstorming

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Post-Capitalist Society”, p.18, Routledge

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• Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Practice, Sweat

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• It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

  Charles Sturt

  Success, Conducting, Should

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.68

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• They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships.
  The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man.

  John Ralston Saul

  Children, Men, Voice

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• The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

  Arthur Scargill

  Party, Giving, Support

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• What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.

  Charles Lamb

  Apples, Soul, Library

  Charles Lamb (1867). “Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters”, p.320

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• Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land, must be corrected. We shall give the world the workforce of the sea, gentlemen. This will no longer be the style of Captain van Toch; we shall replace the adventure story of pearls by the hymnic paean of labour.

  Karel Capek

  Ocean, Adventure, Land

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• The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its unethical way of appraising human beings by the number of things and the amount of money he possesses, instead of by their internal value and their achievements, must be replaced by a new and just economic system, in a word by German Socialism.

  Gregor Strasser

  Numbers, Achievement, Way

  "Tradition & Revolution: Collected Writings of Troy Southgate" edited by Patrick Boch, Jacob Christiansen and John B. Morgan, UK, Arktos Media, (p. 66), 2010.

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• People are fed up with Labour for taking them for granted for far too long, they are fed up of too much spin, and the people of Dunfermline and West Fife have spoken for the rest of the country with their views on the Labour government.

  Willie Rennie

  Country, Government, Views

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• A mind always employed is always happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Labor Day, Mind, May Day

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

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• I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to quote New Labour's mantra of the time, it became apparent to me that ... enforcement and supply-side interventions were largely pointless. They have no significant, lasting impact on the availability, affordability or use of drugs.

  Julian Critchley

  Availability, Impact, Drug

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• In the most difficult circumstances of life, there is often only one source of peace. The Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, extends His grace with the invitation, 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest' (Matthew 11:28).

  Donald L. Hallstrom

  Jesus, Giving, Grace

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• Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them.

  Steven Heighton

  Writing, Luck, May

  "Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing". Book by Steven Heighton, 2011.

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• New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Organization, Child Labor

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• But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

  Liam Fox

  Events, Legacy, Pay

  "Liam Fox says Labour economic policies were national security liability" by Helene Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2010.

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• It is not possible for me to bear alone such labours and the burden of such weighty cares as press on me from hour to hour, without one man at my side to help me. I have not a soul to aid me in all my anxieties and toils.

  William the Silent

  Men, Anxiety, Soul

  "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 75, 1897.

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