Labour Quotes - Page 23

• Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

  Anne Campbell

  Country, Equality, Choices

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• Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Memories, Men

  Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.258

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• The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Foundation, Sacred

  Adam Smith (1814). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With notes, and an additional vol., by D. Buchanan”, p.200

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• It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Greatness, America

  Adam Smith, Laurence Dickey (1993). “Wealth of Nations (Abridged)”, p.35, Hackett Publishing

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• Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

  John Burns

  Men, Judging, Progress

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• It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.

  William Morris

  Work, Littles, Matter

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6349, Delphi Classics

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• I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.

  William Morris

  Art, Exercise, Giving

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

  Karl Marx

  Natural

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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• The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .

  Karl Marx

  Realizing, Circulation, Values

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 463, 1857-1858.

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• The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

  Karl Marx

  Raw Materials, May, Stores

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

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• This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Work, Blessing, Men

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life And Death, May, Stones

  "The Life of Pasteur" published by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, (p. 114), 1902.

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• In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

  Isaac Watts

  Hands, Would Be, Satan

  'Against Idleness and Mischief' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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• What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs; the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Hurt, Silly, Two

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for achieving freedom and solidarity in economic life; the ways believed to correspond more closely with justice and freedom for the distribution of the means of production and the products of labour among men. Bakunin was an anarchist, and he was a collectivist, an outspoken enemy of communism because he saw in it the negation of freedom and, therefore, of human dignity.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Men, Justice

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.22, PM Press

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• The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.

  Lord Acton

  Ideas, Envy, Independence

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.35, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Struggle, Enemy, Vain

  'Say not the struggle naught availeth' (1855)

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• The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Labour Movement, Circles

  1878 Letter to Eduard Bernstein, 17 Jul.

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• The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.

  Bob Crow

  War, Years, Achievement

  "Durham Miners' Gala: Bob Crow dismisses Labour as "history" in explosive speech" by Karen Rockett, www.mirror.co.uk. July 13, 2013.

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• The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

  George Eliot

  Life, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.

  William Penn

  Mind, Body, Want

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• Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hunting, America, Gentleman

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”

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• Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Earth, Labor

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

  William Cowper

  Tire, Pleasure, Labor

  William Cowper (1824). “Poems of William Cowper, Esq”, p.75

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• Labour is the source of every blessing.

  Aesop

  Blessing, Source, Labor

  Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.88

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