Top 1200 Labour Day Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone - not just its activists.

If you want to achieve a real labour of love, it can be painful, too.

I've seen at first-hand what Labour Governments can achieve in power.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Jeremy Corbyn couldn't have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the electoral college that had given MPs a third of the say over who leads the party. That's why Diane Abbott came last when she ran for leader in 2010, even though in the absolute number of votes she came third out of five. It's one of those wonderful historical ironies that the change to the rules was a victory for the Labour right, the result of a push back against the unions who had been asserting themselves more forcefully within the party.

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

Welfare's just one of the problems Labour failed to tackle when they were in government.

I love the preparation, the excitement of game day, the nervousness of game day. But I enjoy the day-to-day stuff. Game day is a great day but I enjoy Mondays and Tuesdays, watching yourself on film, watching the next opponent, getting the game plan.

This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.

The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

Nothing falls into a man's lap from heaven. It is from labour that life grows.

Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust

The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

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

I've been going to Labour party meeting for over 50 years.

No one anticipated the SNP wiping out Labour in Scotland in 2015.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

GDP is a function of capital, labour and how productively you use both.

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God has departed, and the worship of pleasure has taken its place. I am sorry to say that many of the Latter-day Saints are guilty of this. We should repent.

In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too.

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement.

The Labour election of 1945 was a tremendous victory for democratic ownership of the economy.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

Labour has an impressive record of delivery for black Britain.

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

The concept of loyalty to the leader is set firmly in the ethos of the Labour party.

Labour can no longer impose a future on the country, instead it must negotiate one.

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

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

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

You can't meet Labour's tests by failing to provide answers.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.