Labour Quotes - Page 38

• It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Two, Engagement

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• Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

  George V

  Government, Years, Today

  1924 Of Queen Victoria. Diary entry, 22 Jan, on having invited Ramsay Macdonald to form the first Labour administration.

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• An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

  Walter Bagehot

  Sacrifice, Giving, Political

  Walter Bagehot (1974). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”

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• I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

  Paloma Faith

  Vote, Acknowledge

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• You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Art, Taken, Talking

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• Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

  William Hague

  Party, People, Campaigns

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. April 24, 2011.

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• If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Years, Soul, Would Be

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• Grace comes immediately to meet some of those who strive, giving them assurance of the earnest of their inheritance (cf. Eph. 1:14), letting them taste the promised prizes, as if stretching out a loving hand to welcome them and anointing them for further struggles. With others, however, grace waits for the end of the struggle, and prepares for them the crown of patience as well. As one of the God-bearing Fathers says, 'Some receive holy rewards before their labours, some during labours, and some when they depart' (St. John Climacus).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Father, Struggle

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• To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

  James Whistler

  Views, Praise, Said

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• The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Growth, Debt, Earth

  "The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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• I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Party, Voting, Conservative

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• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Ambition, Virtue

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• [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.46, Booklassic

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• Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Drinking, Order, Making Love

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• My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

  Robert Winston

  East London, Firsts, Students

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• No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.

  Joseph Paxton

  Nature, Science, Animal

  Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.1

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• I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Children, Heart

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• Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

  John Owen

  Religious, Darkness, Affliction

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.583

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• So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink into the most wretched misery if they could find no buyers, the so called “equality before the law” remains a pious fraud, since the laws are made by those who find themselves in possession of the social wealth. But in the same way there can also be no talk of a “right over one's own person,” for that right ends when one is compelled to submit to the economic dictation of another if he does not want to starve.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Country, Law, Long

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• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sacrifice, Law, Rewards

  Nikola Tesla (2007). “My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

  Julia Roberts

  Mom, Garden, Time And Love

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• Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

  John Evelyn

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  John Evelyn (1729). “Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions”

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• In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

  Robert Harris

  Party, Personality, Way

  "Robert Harris: 'I used to love politics. Not now'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.

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• Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.

  William Gurnall

  Prayer, Plot, Three

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• My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

  Joseph Howe

  Believe, Solitude, Life Is

  Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.69

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