Quotes:
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
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
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
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
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
Labour is itself a pleasure
View quotes by Manilius
Learn to labour and to wait.
View quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no real wealth but the labour of man.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The insupportable labour of doing nothing (The Spectator)
View quotes by Sir Richard Steele
'I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear' - at a Labour conference.
View quotes by Tony Blair
Not all the labour of the earth
Is done by hardened hands.
View quotes by Will Carleton
And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Who will not suffer labour in this world, let him not be born
View quotes by John Florio
Have you ever noticed how we only win the World Cup under a Labour government?
View quotes by Harold Wilson
Fair shares for all, is Labour's call
View quotes by Douglas Jay
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves
View quotes by James Madison
This division of labour will lessen the task
View quotes by Martial
It is not tenable for a minister to be going against the Labour whip in the way that I did
View quotes by Malcolm Chisholm
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