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Quotes About Labour

There's something wrong with the Labour party. There's something wrong with the fact that women never rise to the top.
~ Jess Phillips
The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.
~ Liz Kendall
One anti-Semitic member of the Labour party is one member too many.
~ Luciana Berger
The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.
~ Bruce Trigger
El alba pone al hombre en camino, y lo pone también a trabajar.
~ Hesíodo
I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits of the dead, brides and unwed youths, old men worn out by labour, and tender maidens with hearts still new to sorrow.
~ Homer Odyssey
Furthermore, unlike so many of his evangelical contemporaries he did not hold the view that the various inter-denominational youth movements represented the most hopeful field of labour; indeed his doctrine of the church left him with little sympathy for that attitude.
~ Iain H. Murray
While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.
~ Ellen Key
If I'm going on any trip, driving music is key. Road Hammers is good driving music. I don't mind listening to my own stuff. You record it for a certain reason. You fall in a love with a certain song at a certain time and how you record it is a labour of love. You better love it.
~ Jason McCoy
I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.
~ Douglas Alexander
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.
~ Angela Rayner
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.
~ Alan Bennett
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.
~ Shirley Williams
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.
~ Karl Radek
Labour has a complex history with racism and internationalism. Political education about antisemitism and all forms of racism can help us reckon with that history, and ensure a socialist politics based on real equality becomes the common sense across the party.
~ Clive Lewis
Common endeavour, solidarity and respect are the hallmarks of the Labour tradition.
~ Wes Streeting
We will not try to out-Ukip Ukip. Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.
~ Chuka Umunna
In about the time a person unaccustomed to bodily labour would have decided upon which side to lie, Farmer Oak was asleep.   The
~ Thomas Hardy
I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.
~ Kathleen Wynne
So, let me be very clear —right here, right now: If Theresa May brings back a deal that fails our tests - and that looks increasingly likely — Labour will vote against it. No ifs, no buts.
~ Keir Starmer
Life is trade; we trade our labour for its fruit, we trade hours of study for knowledge, we trade pleasure for pleasure or sometimes for wealth, security, or offspring.
~ Ilona Andrews
WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.
~ Jairam Ramesh
Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time.
~ Melvyn Bragg
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal superabundance.
~ Arthur Helps