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Quotes About Labour

I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
If the Tories are serious about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to learn, regardless of their background, then the only thing they need to review is Labour's manifesto.
~ Angela Rayner
My mum's super Labour, and my gran. We all love Jeremy Corbyn in the family. Those are very deep roots and I feel like I could never not vote for Labour. Or I could never vote for the Tories because of that.
~ Olly Alexander
Churchill may have made some horrendous mistakes - Gallipoli, for one - but he had a sense of the profundity and integrity of the English experience. By contrast, Blair believes he excised the past in 1997, though what no one on the left seems to have realised is that his historic mission was to destroy the Labour party, not the Tories.
~ David Starkey
Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.
~ Deeyah Khan
Equal constituencies' sound fair. So why is Labour so against the constituencies bill and why do we call it gerrymandering? Because, like so much Tory rhetoric, it sounds good, but if we look beyond the soundbites it becomes clear that it covers policies that promote narrow sectional interests.
~ Emily Thornberry
The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
~ Lucy Powell
Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.
~ Lucy Powell
There's a way that we can deliver a Brexit that works for our country, and the really interesting thing is the amount of Tory MPs working with Labour MPs, forming that consensus.
~ Anna Soubry
The Newcomer's Memory Requires Labour; Just Keep Faith, Practise Zealously! You'll
~ Shakuntala Devi
On her lips, which were dry, was a new shade of lipstick, by Tussy; her doctor had ordered her to put on lipstick and powder right in the middle of labour; he and Sloan both thought it was important for a maternity patient to keep herself up to the mark.
~ Mary McCarthy
Remember, I am not recording the vision of a madman. The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens, than that which I now affirm is true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Specialisation encouraged innovation, because it encouraged the investment of time in a tool-making tool. That saved time, and prosperity is simply time saved, which is proportional to the division of labour.
~ Matt Ridley
In other words, cooking encourages specialisation by sex. The first and deepest division of labour is the sexual one.
~ Matt Ridley
They had stumbled on what Friedrich Hayek called the catallaxy: the ever-expanding possibility generated by a growing division of labour.
~ Matt Ridley
No, what really works inside a big firm is division of labour: you do what you're good at, I'll do what I'm good at, and we'll coordinate our actions. That is what actually happens in practice inside most companies, and good management means good coordination. The employees specialise and exchange, just like participants in a market, or citizens in a city.
~ Matt Ridley
And the good news is that there is no inevitable end to this process. The more people are drawn into the global division of labour, the more people can specialise and exchange, the wealthier we will all be. Moreover, along the way there is no reason we cannot solve the problems that beset us, of economic crashes, population explosions, climate change and terrorism, of poverty, AIDS, depression and obesity.
~ Matt Ridley
Technology was made possible by division of labour: market exchange calls forth innovation.
~ Matt Ridley
He silently gave thanks to the wealthy builders of this country pile who worked very hard to make sure they never had to see other people doing work.
~ Maureen Johnson
The culture of capitalism is self-contradictory, demanding that people be hard workers by day and hedonists by night.
~ Eva Illouz
There was such a sense of relief on the left when New Labour came to power that certain orthodoxies could not be challenged. People became desperate to hang on to the ascendancy of left ideas without really questioning what they were about.
~ Claire Fox
We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour.
~ Johann Lamont
The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.
~ Johann Lamont
It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.
~ Joel Salatin