Labour Quotes - Page 17

• The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Employment, Noble

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.

  Charles Wesley

  Thinking, Names, Speak

  1749 'Forth in Thy Name', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.

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• But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Mistake, May, Christ

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• I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.

  Norman Angell

  Party, Wings, Groups

  "After All: The Autobiography of Norman Angell". Book by Norman Angell, 1951.

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• To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Order, Wages, Firsts

  1889 On the London dock strike.

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• Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wages, Gains, Virtue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.36

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• We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist.

  Anthony Crosland

  Country, Party, Believe

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• All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

  Herbert Spencer

  Desire, Slavery, Coercion

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.37, VM eBooks

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• Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Hard Work, Law, Creative

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• There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions; some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity; others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Cost, Littles, Matter

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Men, Ordinary, Cost

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.32

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• Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

  William Stanley Jevons

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.217

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• I've been dreaming of a time when
  The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories
  And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him
  And will salute him forever.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dream, Names, Sick

  "Song: 'Irish Blood, English Heart'". 2004.

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• We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success lies in adhering to the old principles of the party.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Real, Lying, Party

  Speech to Liberals in Belmont on January 02, 1903. "CB: a life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman". Book by John Wilson, p. 394, 1973.

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• I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

  George Galloway

  Growth, Saws, Birth

  2004 I'm Not the Only One.

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• Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.

  Thomas Malthus

  Agriculture, Corporations, Causes

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.33, University of Michigan Press

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• The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.

  Thomas Malthus

  Class, Air, Appearance

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.88

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• The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.

  Richard Perle

  Party, Thinking, Government

  The Times, September 25, 1986.

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• The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

  John Prescott

  Mean, Achievement, Green

  "Passing Comment". The Times, January 31, 1998.

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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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• Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

  David Ricardo

  Two, Scarcity, Commodity

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

  Malcolm Rifkind

  Party, Apes, Democrat

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• Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.

  Joan Robinson

  Sheep, Giving, Hatred

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.22, Springer

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• Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

  David Harvey

  Ifs

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

  David Harvey

  Contradiction, Abolition, Capitalism

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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