Quotes About Labour

Labour's priorities are clear: jobs and the economy must come first; not party interests or ideological fantasies.

Many other countries have tried this and getting businesses to work in partnership in prisons, in prison and with prison labour, and to actually be able to make an economic return is extremely difficult.

I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.

Many European countries and Japan need to free their labour markets and liberalise services to boost productivity growth.

But the way I look at it is just about every profession in our society: There's some lasting effects. It's just the way that our society is set up. People have to work.

Directing a film is a lot of physical work.

New technologies, innovative management, higher productivity, displacements in the labour market, increased migration - these are all provoking major economic, social, and political shifts. These shifts need to be better understood if we are to address them in a positive and effective manner.

Admittedly, the Conservatives are generally more persuasive orators than their Labour counterparts, perhaps a skill developed by spending school holidays trying to lure father out from behind his Daily Telegraph.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things." ? Karl Marx

39 It was the same in the other great houses. And all of this was possible because the great monasteries began to utilize a hired labour force, who not only were more productive than the monks had been,40 but also more productive than tenants required to provide periods of compulsory labour. Indeed, these tenants had long since been satisfying their labour obligations by money payments.

The seclusion of Spinoza's life was necessitated by intense labour and intellectual discipline, and his frugality expressed independence of spirit rather than meanness or self-concern. The strength of Spinoza's social feelings, and his Aristotelian emphasis on friendship as a necessary human good, are abundantly shown in the Ethics.

Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

He gave it to the use of the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it)." People

Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

Labour can and must offer hope: not the falsehood that it will do everything, but the real promise that it can help us help each other.

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

I never could get a proper job.

I would reject wholeheartedly any notion of a Labour Party that is not committed to returning to power at the first opportunity. Of course that needs to be principled power. But standing on the sidelines looking for the purest ideology is a dereliction of the duty for any Labour member.