Labour Quotes - Page 27

• No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Want, Pennies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.55, Rajpal & Sons

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• We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Names, Giving

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.180, University of Virginia Press

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• The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Greed, Saving, Honest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.177, Grove Press

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• Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Excellence, Intellect

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Men, Class

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

  Joseph Hume

  Country, Levels, Proportion

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• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  Ed Miliband

  Wisdom, Challenges, Progress

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

  Peter Mandelson

  Government, Ideas, Brilliant

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• Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

  Henry James

  Oxford, Leisure, Dignity

  Henry James (2011). “English Hours: A Portrait of a Country”, p.148, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

  John Milton

  Work, Luxury, Restraint

  John Milton, John Aikin (1806). “Poetical Works: With a Preface, Biographical and Critical”, p.92

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• The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract of calm weather the mines were drowned, and all the workmen thrown idle.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Country, Powerful, Wind

  William Stanley Jevons (1866). “The coal question: an enquiry concerning the progress of the Nation, and the probable exhaustion of our coal-mines”, p.144

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• The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Law, Appreciate

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• If there is a serious outbreak in the UK I doubt voters will risk a Labour government. Time to get serious... Look at Diane Abbott's irresponsible comments on Ebola patients, Mili's open border policy. No. Way.

  Louise Mensch

  Stupid, Government, Ebola

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• Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.

  James Henley Thornwell

  Christian, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands, and, as far as possible, of all other means of creating wealth; and thus to keep the great body of labourers in such a state of poverty and dependence, as would compel them to sell their labour to their tyrants for the lowest prices at which life could be sustained

  Lysander Spooner

  Mean, Land, Class

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• Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.

  Nick Clegg

  Attitude, Doe, Different

  The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. March 11, 2010.

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• The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

  Jane Austen

  Two, Ivory, Littles

  Letter to J. Edward Austen, 16 Dec. 1816

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• Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

  Antonio Gramsci

  Work Out, Personality, Brain

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• Therefore, when we find our heart inflamed with love to God, we may know that God hath shined upon our souls in the pardon of sin; and proportionally to our measure of love is our assurance of pardon.  Therefore we should labour for a greater measure thereof, that our hearts may be the more inflamed in the love of God.

  Richard Sibbes

  Heart, Love Is, Soul

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• Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.

  Friedrich Engels

  Men, Political, Next

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels”

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• In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

  Enoch Powell

  Party, Irony, Stranger

  The Sunday Telegraph, October 18, 1964.

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• But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

  David Ricardo

  Connections, Demand, Clear

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.130

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• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  Ed Balls

  Strong, Party, Gold

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• My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

  Frank Dobson

  Lying, Party, Views

  "The unofficial opposition: furry, fearless and perfectly Frank" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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• There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Envy, World, Conflict

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.61, Rajpal & Sons

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