Labour Quotes - Page 21

• Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independent Women, Dignity Of Work, Labor Day

  "Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life".

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• Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

  Ben Jonson

  Heaven, Half, Venture

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.743

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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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• Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Baby, Men, People

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• Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Race, Differences

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• Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors,
  And all this our very utmost toil
  Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength
  Whether in oxen or in men, we dull
  The edges of our ploughshares, and in return
  Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed,
  And so today the farmer shakes his head,
  More and more often sighing that his work,
  The labour of his hands, has come to naught.

  Lucretius

  Work, Mean, Men

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• Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

  Dora Russell

  Party, Might, Common

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• The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Sprung Up, Sound

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.29, OUP Oxford

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• The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

  Clive Anderson

  Party, Four, Lasts

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• For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

  Douglas Alexander

  Betrayal, Winning, Foundation

  "Labour must do more to be credible on economy, says Douglas Alexander" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

  Tony Benn

  Class, Leader, Middle

  Tony Benn (1987). “Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-67”, Hutchinson Radius

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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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• I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

  Ed Balls

  Government, Saving, London

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• We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

  Henry Ford

  Use, May, Want

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.116, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Giving, Support

  "Blair endorses Brown as new Labour Party leader". www.cnn.com. May 12, 2007.

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• The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

  John Naisbitt

  Dinosaurs, Mergers, Appearance

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• Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.

  Plotinus

  Cutting, Light, Perfect

  Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.47, Hayes Barton Press

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• I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.

  Ben Elton

  Baseball, Oasis, Vote

  1998 In The Radio Times, 18 Apr.

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• The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, People, Voting

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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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• I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

  Roy Hattersley

  Party, Years, Odd

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• The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

  Vince Cable

  Party, Cities, Rural Areas

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• Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

  Elizabeth David

  Preparation, Trouble, Good Food

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• I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour

  Peter Hain

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

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• Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

  David Cameron

  Running, Party, Ideas

  "Put in a tight spot by the cat's backside" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2006.

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