Labour Quotes - Page 31

• The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Men, Cost, He Man

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1684). “An essay on translated verse”, p.11

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• Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Real, Cutting, Giving

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• If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause

  Jim Rohn

  Ideas, Choices, Doubt

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• If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Writing, Years

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Party, Health

  "Cameron challenged on Labour claim". www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. March 30, 2015.

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• As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It ensures the necessary vacation in those earthly and turbulent anxieties and affections, which would otherwise become inordinate and morbid. It brings around a season of periodical neatness and decency, when the soil of weekly labour is laid aside, and men meet each other amidst the decencies of the sanctuary, and renew their social affections. But above all, a Sabbath (one day of rest in seven) is necessary for man's moral and religious interests.

  Robert Dabney

  Religious, War, Son

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• The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health.

  Adolf Hitler

  Essentials, Female, Factories

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• Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Thinking

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• All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Practice, Body

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• The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Body, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Dignity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

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• To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Suffering, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mastery, Lost, Term

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

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• Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Exploits

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Produce, Worthy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Unique, Humans, Human Family

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.84, Penguin Books India

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• Labour is priceless, not gold.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gold, Priceless

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Distinction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Able, Hand In Hand

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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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 do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Enemy, Regard

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.215, Rajpal & Sons

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• I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Calling, Weavers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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