Labour Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Criticism, Sincere

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• We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Running, Creativity, Daily Tasks

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• He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

  Samuel Smiles

  Rewards, Enjoy

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.95

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• Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

  Samuel Smiles

  May, Glory, Burden

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.88

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• Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.

  Fanny Kemble

  Christmas, Shopping, Broken

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off.

  David Blunkett

  Party, Departure, Prime

  "Blair faces crisis over resignations" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2006.

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• I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

  David Blunkett

  Party, Believe, Beats

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• I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born

  George Galloway

  Party, Apology, East

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• All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.

  George Galloway

  Morning, Lying, Party

  "Galloway wins in Bethnal Green & Bow - confirmed" by Neil McIntosh, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2005.

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• The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.

  George Galloway

  Population, British, Left

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• I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.

  Winston Churchill

  Race, Degenerates, Decline

  Winston Churchill's remarks as Home Secretary in a 1910 Departmental Paper (the original document is in the collection of Asquith's papers at the Bodleian Library in Oxford); later quoted in Clive Ponting "Churchill", 1995.

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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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• Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.

  Emma Goldman

  Crush, Children, Betrayal

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• As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

  Karl Marx

  Toil, Beast, Instruments

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

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• In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

  Karl Marx

  Independent, White, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.329, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Spare Time, Mass

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.581, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Long, Commodity

  Karl Marx (1957). “Capital”

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• An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Increase, Products

  Karl Marx (2005). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy”, Penguin UK

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• Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature upon few, and the labour of learning those sciences which may, by mere labour, be obtained, is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert some judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of critic.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Vanity, Names

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.413

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• There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Novelists, Genius

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• A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

  Samuel Richardson

  Sex, Mean, Men

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