Labourers Quotes - Page 2

• My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

  Danny Boyle

  Jobs, Dad, School

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• The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Harvest

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• Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Division, Castes, Labour

  "The Annihilation of Caste". Essay by B. R. Ambedkar, ccnmtl.columbia.edu. 1936.

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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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• 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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• Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.

  Heidi Baker

  Compassion, Ministry, Thesis

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• Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Welfare, Should

  Mahadev Haribhai Desai, Gandhi (Mahatma) (1928). “With Gandhiji in Ceylon: a journal of the tour with authorised version of all important speeches”

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• This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Daily Tasks, Mad, Wealth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.115, A&C Black

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• The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Self, Fundamentals, Accumulation

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.848, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Ambition, Science

  Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England”, p.189

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• It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

  John Locke

  Lying, Ambition, Littles

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.9

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• A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

  Adam Smith

  Character, Garden, Hands

  Adam Smith (1778). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.65

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• Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

  Hudson Taylor

  Faithful, Reason, Found

  James Hudson Taylor (2010). “China's Spiritual Need and Claims”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.

  John Locke

  Lying, Learning, Ambition

  John Locke (1854). “The Works of John Locke: Philosophical Works, with a Preliminary Essay and Notes by J. A. St. John”, p.121

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• And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Government, Age

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.412, Wildside Press LLC

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• (Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years. He joined the liberal insurgents in 1860 in the hope of an amnesty for his past offences, and subsequently became the most formidable guerilla chief and leader of men on the Bourbon side.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Army, Past, Men

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1985). “Bandits”

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Summer, Children, Fun

  "English Social History".

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• What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others.  All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Class, Together

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• All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.

  Karl Marx

  Character, Class, Want

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.60, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

  Robert Bridges

  Running, Lying, Night

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• It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Men, Matter

  'Unto this Last' (1862) preface, 6 (4)

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• No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

  Karl Marx

  Bourgeoisie, Wages, Cash

  Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1832, Harriman House Limited

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• In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.

  Karl Marx

  Reality

  Karl Marx (2012). “The Essential Marx”, p.157, Courier Corporation

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• The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Long, Commodity

  Karl Marx (1957). “Capital”

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• If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Needs, Hours

  Karl Marx (2012). “The Essential Marx”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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