Labourers Quotes

• LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

  David Ricardo

  Race, May, Natural

  1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

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• The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

  David Ricardo

  Land, Class, Community

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.5

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• What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Two, Gold

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• In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Long, Competition

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.

  Adam Smith

  Mean, Land, Numbers

  Adam Smith (1864). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.141

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• But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

  David Ricardo

  Connections, Demand, Clear

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.130

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• This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth.

  Narendra Modi

  Mother, Country, Kings

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• Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

  David Ricardo

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.86

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• If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

  Blaise Pascal

  Soldier, Complaining, Hardship

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Technology, Together, Soil

  Karl Marx (1992). “Marx's Capital”, Lawrence & Wishart Limited

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• A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

  William Cobbett

  Real, Foundation, Opinion

  William Cobbett (1935). “The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham”

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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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• A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Men, Tables

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• An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

  George Herbert

  Ill

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.335

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• That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Wall, Gun

  "A patriot after all, 1940-1941".

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• Quiet night, that brings
  Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day,
  In which he rises early to do wrong,
  And when his work is ended dares not sleep.

  Philip Massinger

  Sleep, Night, Quiet

  Philip Massinger (1817). “Beauties of Massinger”, p.246

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• One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Intellectual, One Day, Speech

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• We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.

  James Connolly

  Children, Men, Long

  James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

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• When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

  Blaise Pascal

  Giving, Soldier, Hard Life

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

  Karl Marx

  Individuality, Capability, Species

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

  David Ricardo

  Business, Wages, Farming

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.68

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• Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Intellectual, Fertility

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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• The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?

  Thomas Malthus

  Country, Meat, Three

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

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• In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

  Henry Lawson

  Sports, Hero, Land

  Henry Lawson (1967). “Collected Verse: 1885-1900”

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• The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Nature, Men

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