Top 1200 Labour Quotes & Sayings - Page 7
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
New Labour has deregulated, liberalised and privatised - but every time the private sector fails it is the taxpayer who pays.
We need dynamic and thriving businesses and a skilled and adaptable labour force to produce competitiveness and prosperity.
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.
No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.
I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of the E.U.
I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.
The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
When you're on the verge of depression, a good leveller is to put one foot in front of the other and do some manual labour.
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.
If you lose your job because there has been an influx of labour from another country, that is a legitimate cause for concern.
The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.
Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.
I cannot be clearer about this. I am not in politics, let alone Labour's shadow cabinet, to keep things as they are.
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.
The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.
The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?
I can only look at what Labour has done to the NHS here in Wales and it's not a good story. That includes on education as well.
The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.
Labour allowed ourselves to be painted as anti-business for talking about insecurity, when in reality, the opposite was true.
It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.
Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.
Many European countries and Japan need to free their labour markets and liberalise services to boost productivity growth.
Labour's priorities are clear: jobs and the economy must come first; not party interests or ideological fantasies.
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.
The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the Labour Party. Long may it continue.
I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.
The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.
In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
If technology can remove some of the labour-intensive tasks where the computer can do better than the human eye; that helps.
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.
Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.
We need a transitional Brexit deal that provides maximum certainty and stability. Labour will deliver it.
Capitalism in and of itself is based on the monetising of human labour, and the first evidence of that is slavery. And that has never changed. We are all participating in that.
Labour is the party of the NHS and the environment and fighting for better workplace and civic rights for working men and women.
New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.
Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.
You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
What happens in Bermondsey on February 24th will be a pointer to the rest of the country as far as Labour's prospects are concerned.
I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born
Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.
