Labour Quotes - Page 37

• Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

  Catherine Booth

  Running, Men, Soul

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• There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Successful, Light

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

  David Ricardo

  Wages, Variation, Causes

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.47

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• Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

  David Holmgren

  Agriculture, Design, Energy

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• The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

  Tony Benn

  Christian, Party, Church

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• Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Fall, Eye, Offending

  "Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year".

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• For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

  Clara Zetkin

  Crush, Class, Reform

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• It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do note weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable.

  Roland Barthes

  Mother, Pain, Believe

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• We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Haste, Leisure

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.214, Cambridge University Press

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• The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

  Arnold Bennett

  Inspirational, Self Confidence, Gains

  Arnold Bennett (2006). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Garden, Exotic, Plant

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• Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the US, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here. When I moved to Britain, the utilities were state-run. By the time I left, most of that was privatized. Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

  Jon Weisman

  Party, Passion, Cutting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Reading, Heart

  David BRAINERD (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]”, p.264

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• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Government

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• If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.

  Seth Godin

  Emotional, Ideas, People

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• The crisis was 2008, in 2015 - almost eight years later and the gap between where we would have been and where we are is huge and not closing. The implied unemployment rate is very high, labour force participation is very low, and the increase in wages in the second quarter was the lowest in 25 years. Before this turmoil, the U.S. economy was in better shape than Europe or Canada, but not strong.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Strong, Economy, Crisis

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the time - and then they'll fight for better prison libraries or whatever. It's like they're missing the big picture. If I were in prison, of course I would prefer to be outside doing physical labour. It's not physical labour but prison life that kills a person. It's so bad inside that the outside jobs are often sought after. So, yeah, call them work crews and let them do it. At the same time the retributive side can feel the cons are being punished.

  Peter Moskos

  Fighting, People, Missing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Children, Reality

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Parents and Children'

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• I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies - and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

  William Hague

  Cutting, Agency, Numbers

  "'The last chance election for Britain'". Speech by the Rt Hon William Hague MP, leader of the Conservative party, to the spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Leadership, Party, Political

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• Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Congratulations, Intellectual, Inspired

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

  Tony Blair

  Party, People, Should

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

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• We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

  David Brainerd

  Design, Looks, World

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.491

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• Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

  David Cameron

  Fall, Taken, Self

  "David Cameron's EU speech - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Government, Target

  The Economist interview, www.economist.com. March 31, 2010.

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