Top 1200 Labour Quotes & Sayings - Page 8
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.
Labour day is a great American holiday that people
celebrate by going out and buying products
made in China
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.
The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.
It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.
Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects?
How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.
Gordon Brown is and always will be committed to the interests of big business, so there's no way I want to be involved in the Labour Party again.
Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.
Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.
Sometimes you have to invest in people to get the best out of them. To me, that is socialism. That is why I'm a Labour member rather than a Conservative.
My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
Nobody can guarantee the real terms per pupil funding increase. In the Labour party's manifesto we know the figures don't add up.
My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.
It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.
The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.
I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.
We have a really rich and diverse heritage in my family - but I sometimes felt it was a bit of a chain round my neck in the Labour party if truth be told.
We stand in the centre ground of the Labour party and our traditions. The policies we are advocating go right back to the beginning.
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
Putting a credible form of Brexit to the people and offering Remain as an alternative will give Labour the chance to unite as a party.
I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.
The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods is over.
I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did.
Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.
I'm prepared to argue with some of my Labour colleagues about doing what it takes to see that every school has the governance needed to succeed.
I admire Peter Mandleson's chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes.
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.
The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.
Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.
The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.
Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Labour opposes the principle of companies having their own private and privileged courts in which to settle investor-state disputes.
Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.
The Labour party was supposed to defend the people and be for the working class, but now they only have ever-so-slightly different polices from the Conservatives.
As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .
All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
Anyone standing for leader of the Labour party has a responsibility to speak truth, because without that we will never win power.
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
I was a candidate in Loughborough in the 2005 election. I had a good result against the sitting Labour MP but not enough to unseat him.
