Labour Quotes - Page 6

• How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.

  James Grahame

  Song, Morning, Voice

  Henry Kirke White, James Grahame (1856). “The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame”, p.216

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• We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party

  Andrew Lansley

  Country, Party, Thinking

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• If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

  Derrick Jensen

  Men, Existence, Ifs

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.59, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

  John Berger

  Poetry, Together, Torn Apart

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.705, Vintage

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• The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

  Doris Lessing

  Two, Feminism, Pills

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• And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ease, Labor

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.90, CUP Archive

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• It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone

  Leigh Hunt

  Tired, Sleep, Past

  Leigh Hunt (1820). “The Indicator”, p.105

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• What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

  Michelangelo

  Struggle, Sweat, Deception

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• Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.

  Michelangelo

  Stress, Mind, Sculpture

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• They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.

  William Cowper

  Judging, Birth, Poetic

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.113

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• Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.

  Will Carleton

  Hands, Done, Earth

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• The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Civilization, World, Rewards

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• Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

  Homer

  Return, Rich, Fame

  Homer (1822). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.209

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• We need people like me in the Labour party.

  Alan Johnson

  Party, People, Needs

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• The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Future, Sweat

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• Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

  Polly Toynbee

  Fall, Example, Voters

  "Britain is smiling, but it looks daggers at Labour" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2006.

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• It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Government, People

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• At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Israel, Hands, Land

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• My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

  Peter Straub

  Success, Real, Government

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• I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

  Toby Young

  Academic Work, Aptitude, Mechanic

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• British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

  Rory Bremner

  Moving, Target, British Politics

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• The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.

  Sir John Richard Hicks

  Determination, Business, Special

  Sir John Richard Hicks (1963). “The theory of wages”

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• Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

  Arthur Scargill

  Party, People, Gone

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• We must continue to liberalise the single market, cut red tape and basically create a digital single market. We have not completed the single market yet, there is not sufficient free movement of goods, labour, services and money. We have to keep on working at that against all the protectionist tendencies that we have right now.

  Alexander Stubb

  Cutting, Tape, Movement

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• When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Jerusalem, Britain

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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