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Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
View quotes by Karl Marx

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.
View quotes by Victor Hugo

They now disguise the shambles they have got into by deciding it's all the fault of the media. I think this is now easily the most shambolic campaign run by Labour since 1983. [on the idea that Labour politicians might be the victims of media plots]
View quotes by Michael Portillo

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
View quotes by Adam Smith

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
View quotes by Peter Hain

Poorly paid labour is inefficient labour, the world over
View quotes by Henry George

Bear in mind too that we fought the 2005 election in the face of a very heavily funded Conservative campaign - a large part of which was reportedly funded by loans, and targeted at individual Labour MPs [responding to the Labour loans for peerages scandal]
View quotes by Ian McCartney

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
View quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
View quotes by Tony Blair

Like Sisyphus, our work is never done; Continually rolls back the restless stone. (The Thresher's Labour)
View quotes by Stephen Duck

The longest suicide note in history (on Labour's New Hope for Britain in 1983)
View quotes by Gerald Kaufman

Fair shares for all, is Labour's call
View quotes by Douglas Jay

The Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism.
View quotes by Morgan Phillips

The insupportable labour of doing nothing (The Spectator)
View quotes by Sir Richard Steele

To give and not to count the cost;
To fight and not to heed the wounds;
To toil and not to seek for rest;
To labour and not ask for any reward
Save that of knowing that we do Thy will.
View quotes by St Ignatius Loyola

'I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear' - at a Labour conference.
View quotes by Tony Blair

Learn to labour and to wait.
View quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
View quotes by Seneca

From the level of pragmatic, everyday knowledge to modern natural science, the knowledge of nature derives from man's primary coming to grips with nature; at the same time it reacts back upon the system of social labour and stimulates its development.
View quotes by Jurgen Habermas

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden.'
View quotes by Saint Augustine



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