Labour Quotes
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Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.
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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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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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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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Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
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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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Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.
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As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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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.
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Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.
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Learning without thought is labour lost.
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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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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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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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Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.
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I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
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Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education?
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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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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.
