Top 1200 Labour Quotes & Sayings - Page 6
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.
What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.
Labour are determined to create a fair, sustainable tax system in an economy that works for everyone.
You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.
It was a Labour prime minister who appointed the first black male and female cabinet ministers.
A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.
By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick.
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
I think there is racism at the heart of British policy and has been both in Labour and Conservative times.
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market.
I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.
I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament
Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.
Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.
I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.
So I'm Labour, although I couldn't vote for Corbyn - he'd have taken too much money off me!
I was determined to be fit during my pregnancy because I didn't know what I was going to get in terms of labour, so I wanted to be prepared for that.
There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.
In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.
Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.
Europe has massive challenges in completing the single market, the free movement of labour or benefits.
Under Conservative, Labour, and coalition governments, the U.K. was never willing to accept all the moves to union or all the requirements of the E.U.
British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.
This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity.
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.
Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.
Labour will only survive in government if we can restore the sense of mission upon which it was founded.
Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.
I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.
I'm not sure filming a birth is as hard as actual labour, but it's a really long, arduous day!
I was born into the Labour party. I was delivering leaflets by the age I could reach the letter box.
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected
Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?
Only Labour is in a position to protect individual rights against abuses by the state.
Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
Him, as He is, is labour without end.
We are these people,
wistful, ironical, wilful,
who have no part in
new-world reconstruction,
in the confederacy of labour.
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.
Labour is fundamentally a Remain party but it is in our interests to negotiate as good a deal as possible.
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
I get cross about 13 years of Labour government that brought the country to the state it did.
Labour is at its best when we understand how the country has changed and we adapt to new circumstances.
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.