Labour Quotes - Page 25

• Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.

  Anthony Crosland

  Moving, Government, Should Have

  Anthony Crosland (1974). “Socialism now and other essays”, Jonathan Cape

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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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• Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Views, Judging, Forever

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• The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Lasts, Moments, Length

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

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• I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Independent, Return, Determined

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.240

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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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• Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

  David Harvey

  Earth, Products, Values

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 2006 VERSO Edition,

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• No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

  Michael Foot

  Leader, Political, Rising

  Michael Foot's remarks on Tony Blair, 1995.

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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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• I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

  Thomas Malthus

  Real, Law, Doubt

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

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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 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 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 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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• 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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• When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.

  John Smith

  People, Together, Doe

  John Smith (2006). “Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles”, p.222, Applewood Books

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• You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

  Fay Weldon

  People, Envy, Want

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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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