Labour Quotes - Page 36

• The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods is over.

  Lucy Powell

  Eras, Factories, Britain

  "Providing education to age 18 is crucial for Britain" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2008.

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• Labor party wants to make the economy fairer for everybody with a new industrial strategy and by investing in different parts of the UK. And we are not following the cynical approach of saying: Young people don't usually vote so we don't have to make any offer to them. But to succeed, we need a progressive future partnership with the EU. It is not easy, but I genuinely think it is possible to do. And I want Labour in power to do it, because the damage that is being done is profound.

  Keir Starmer

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My passionate belief is in the role of movements to achieve political power to transform society. In this country, we talk about the Labour movement, of which the Labour Party is the wing of government for the interests of people we were set up to champion.

  Owen Jones

  Country, Party, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.

  Owen Jones

  Vision, Strategy, Situation

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• What appeals to me in The Deuce is some of the same things that made me interested in The Wire, which is there seems to be a theme here around markets and capitalism and labour. This is a moment, 1971, of something that was under the counter: then brown paper bags suddenly became legal, pornography. And it was really the birth of an industry which is now a multi-billion dollar American standard. And these people were the pioneers at a moment where there really were no rules, then suddenly there was a legal industry that was allowed to exist.

  David Simon

  People, Wire, Birth

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

  Country, Party, Political

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• The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Political, Moral

  Speech at Labour Party Conference 1 Oct. 1962, in The Times 2 Oct. 1962

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• At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

  Charles Babbage

  Tools, Increase, Wells

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

  Stephen Fry

  Regret, Government, Victory

  BBC "This Week", May 19, 2006.

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• Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

  William Hague

  Party, Government, Territory

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• When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

  Jimmy Reid

  Government, Downing Street, Wings

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• To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Independent, Men

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• It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do note weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable.

  Roland Barthes

  Mother, Pain, Believe

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• We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Haste, Leisure

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.214, Cambridge University Press

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• There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Successful, Light

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Triumph, World, Communism

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Philosophy, Exercise, Men

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364

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• Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Peculiar, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.182, Penguin

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• The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right

  Donella Meadows

  Nature, Future, Technology

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• I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Writing, Imagination, Trying

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• By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

  David Ricardo

  Country, Desire, May

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.3

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• The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

  Arnold Bennett

  Inspirational, Self Confidence, Gains

  Arnold Bennett (2006). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

  Clara Zetkin

  Crush, Class, Reform

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• Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

  Catherine Booth

  Running, Men, Soul

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• It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and wellbeing, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Children, Law

  "Concerning Christian Liberty".

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