Labour Quotes - Page 36

• My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

  Tony Blair

  Strong, Winning, Views

  "Meet the new Labour adviser: Tony Blair" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

  John Lydon

  Party, Men, Class

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• People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Believe, People

  Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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• Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Order, Law

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• One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Two, Political

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Political, Moral

  Speech at Labour Party Conference 1 Oct. 1962, in The Times 2 Oct. 1962

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• The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

  Country, Party, Political

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• To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Independent, Men

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• By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

  David Ricardo

  Country, Desire, May

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.3

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• At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

  Charles Babbage

  Tools, Increase, Wells

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and wellbeing, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Children, Law

  "Concerning Christian Liberty".

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• A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

  Anthony Trollope

  Daily Tasks, Beats, Dainty

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.66, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Triumph, World, Communism

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Order, People, Machines

  "To the Rural Poor: An Explanation for the Peasants of What the Social-Democrats Want (1903)". Collected Works, Volume 6, p. 366, www.marxists.org.

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• As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

  Stephen Fry

  Regret, Government, Victory

  BBC "This Week", May 19, 2006.

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• The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Philosophy, Exercise, Men

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364

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• Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

  William Hague

  Party, Government, Territory

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• I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Writing, Imagination, Trying

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• The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right

  Donella Meadows

  Nature, Future, Technology

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• Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Peculiar, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.182, Penguin

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• When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

  Jimmy Reid

  Government, Downing Street, Wings

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• Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for thousands of years not only as a substance he prized and was willing to labour to obtain, but also as a generator of poetic and of mythic meaning. The contradictions it embodies only intensify its power and its links with experience of the sacred.

  Margaret Visser

  Men, Rocks, Years

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.75, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Inspirational, Attitude, Order

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• If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.

  Sister Nivedita

  Struggle, Reality, Sacred

  Sister Nivedita (2016). “Swamiji and His Message”, p.37, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

  Haile Selassie

  Children, Father, Achieve

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