Labour Quotes
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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.
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It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.
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You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.
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There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions; some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity; others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers.
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I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
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Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.
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The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.
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I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.
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In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
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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.
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Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
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Labour completely accepts and recognises the vote to leave the EU. The question is what is the agenda for that process and that needs to be held to account in Parliament now and that means it needs to be open to a vote.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
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It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.
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We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
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For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value.
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In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.
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The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.
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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
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I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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Genius can never despise labour.
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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
