Labour Quotes - Page 5

• That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.

  Tycho Brahe

  Real, Science, Simple

  "The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630". Book by Marie Boas Hall, p. 117, April 2, 2013.

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• Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Mean, Greatness

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.163

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• The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.

  David Lloyd George

  Blow, Men, Fabric

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

  David Lloyd George

  Children, Work, Men

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• Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Safety, Wish

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• Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

  David Low

  Two, Cartoon, Three

  David Low (1956). “Autobiography”, London : M. Joseph

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• At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Class, Organization, Ideas

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• A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Simple, June, Effort

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• I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

  Peter Mandelson

  Moved On, Politician, Blair

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• Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.

  Lucy Powell

  Government, Differences, Choices

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• A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

  Karl Radek

  Party, Clubs, Action

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• The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

  Kim Young-sam

  Jobs, Cutting, Reality

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• The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

  Johann Lamont

  Party, Views, Body

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• People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

  Tony Benn

  Creativity, Ambition, Order

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• Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous

  Juan Somavia

  Children, Kids, Men

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• Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Brave New World, Past, Technology

  Yanis Varoufakis (2015). “The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy”, p.43, Zed Books Ltd.

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• The true success is to labour.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  True Success

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'El Dorado'

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• For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Work, Said, Accomplished

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• How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Age, Crowns

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

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• Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry.

  Dylan Thomas

  Vision, Naked, Movement

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.119, New Directions Publishing

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• In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.

  Matthew Arnold

  Home, Lost Ones, Class

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.378

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• Labour day is a great American holiday that people
  celebrate by going out and buying products
  made in China

  David Letterman

  Holiday, People, Buying

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• John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Party, Winning, Government

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• Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest their experiences are, of a sudden, mountains of strength and can produce pictures with spontaneous start and finish.

  John F. Carlson

  Mountain, Too Much, Spontaneity

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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