Top 100 Quotes About Labour's
#1. What happens in Bermondsey on February 24th will be a pointer to the rest of the country as far as Labour's prospects are concerned.
Peter Tatchell
#2. Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.
Douglas Alexander
#3. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
Cassandra Clare
#4. The sated day is never first
The best day is a day of thirst
Yes, there is goal and meaning in our path -
but it is the way that is the labour's worth.
Karin Boye
#5. But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.
Liam Fox
#6. Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.
Patricia Hewitt
#7. When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.
Vince Cable
#8. Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
Alistair Darling
#9. The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements
Tony Blair
#10. Rocking on a lazy billow
With roaming eyes,
Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
Thou art now wise.
Wake the power within thee slumbering,
Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
Sweet labour's prize.
John Stuart Blackie
#11. When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.
Rory Bremner
#12. New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
Liam Fox
#13. Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?
Nicola Sturgeon
#14. Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep;
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
#15. I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.
Kenneth Branagh
#16. Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.
John Redwood
#17. Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.
Philip Hammond
#18. Many people supported the Conservatives because of David Cameron, while many people supported Labour despite Ed Miliband. Deteriorating opinions of Cameron will therefore have a bigger impact on the Conservatives' vote share than worsening views of Miliband would have on Labour's.
Michael Ashcroft
#19. Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
Patricia Hewitt
#20. The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action.
John Pilger
#21. Och, here is the gauger newly from London, and we hae Clunes making couthy with him, nae respect fur the fact it's our labour going intae those taxes.
Anonymous
#22. The Kingdom of Heaven runs on righteousness, but the Kingdom of Earth runs on oil. ERNEST BEVIN, CHURCHILL'S MINISTER OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE London,
Donald L. Miller
#23. As early as 1975 she had come up with a wonderful line about the Labour Party: They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.
Niall Ferguson
#24. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#25. I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament
Roy Hattersley
#26. What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
Clara Zetkin
#27. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.
J.C. Ryle
#28. I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office.
Jonathan Powell
#29. What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains in our education: for nature teaches your sex, what, in a long course of labour and study, ours can hardly attain to.
Samuel Richardson
#30. We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
John Pilger
#31. I'm perfectly discriminating,' he said with a devilish smile.
'How's that? No blondes after Labour Day?'
'I said I was discriminating, not an imbecile.
Ally Blake
#32. I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.
Julie Burchill
#33. I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.
Tony Benn
#34. It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
Gottfried Leibniz
#35. I'd laboured over it a long while, and labour brings a thing near the heart's core.
Mary Webb
#36. When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
Jimmy Reid
#37. even in the quieter professions, there is a toil and a labour of the mind, if not of the body, which seldom leaves a man's looks to the natural effect of time.
Jane Austen
#38. What we should lament is not the loss of houses or of land, but the loss of men's lives. Men come first; the rest is the fruit of their labour.
Thucydides
#39. Politics is tricky, especially in Jamaica. There are two parties, JLP [Jamaica Labour Party] and PNP [People's National Party], and if I went for one, I would upset supporters of the other. I stay as far from politics as I can.
Usain Bolt
#40. What man's labour cannot do in ten years, GOD's favour can settle it in ten seconds.
Osunsakin Adewale
#41. The fruits of one's sweat and mental labour are always rewarding
Haile Selassie
#42. I'm not sure filming a birth is as hard as actual labour, but it's a really long, arduous day!
Helen George
#43. Under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.
Suzanne La Follette
#44. I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
Ed Balls
#45. The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
#46. Life is beyond hunting. And the Labour of gathering. It's all about love in the light of Life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#47. If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.
Shirley Williams
#48. My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
Julia Roberts
#49. 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 G. Trigger
#50. Why play, lounge or labour in a social wasteland? It's toxicity is contagious, and no respecter of persons. Fall back!
T.F. Hodge
#51. We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.
Lucy Powell
#52. There is a great number of noblemen among you that are themselves as idle as drones, that subsist on other men's labour, on the labour of their tenants, whom, to raise their revenues, they pare to the quick.
Thomas More
#53. That's the point. If these Labour MP's were really working men, they'd have some sense. But most of 'em, or at least the ones I've met, seem to be half-baked intellectuals who've specialized in economics or some such dreary muck.
Carter Dickson
#54. Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised.
Tim Field
#55. The baby, when he or she is ready to be born,
will send a message that tells the mother's body that it is ready.
The mother's body can then begin labour by slowly releasing oxytocin, the hormone of love.
The mother and baby work together to bring the baby into the world.
Ruth Ehrhardt
#56. Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
Carol Bellamy
#58. There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.
Lily Graham
#59. If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.
Elton John
#60. Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova, "Her sanctioned guardian."
"You got cheap foreign labour to protect Lissa?
Richelle Mead
#62. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.
David Cameron
#63. We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope ... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.
Helen Garner
#64. If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.
Seth Godin
#65. We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
David Brainerd
#66. It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
#67. Man's feeble race what ills await!
Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!
Thomas Gray
#68. At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without luxury, labour without emolument, and die without notice, that they might stamp God's image on the soul of youth. That surely is a splendid vocation.
Edmund Campion
#69. 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
#70. It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.
Norman Tebbit
#71. In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.
Virgil
#72. If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that.
Nigel Farage
#73. I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.
Jeremy Corbyn
#74. I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much
How to forget that learning; but, sir, now
It did me yeoman's service.
William Shakespeare
#75. May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. [pause] I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.
Harold Wilson
#76. At night returning, every labour sped,
He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;
While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
Oliver Goldsmith
#77. I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.
Gisela Stuart
#78. My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
Martin Freeman
#79. Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
William Morris
#80. It is absolutely clear that your continued leadership is putting the Labour Party's future in jeopardy and denying millions of people in our country who so desperately need representation by a Labour government the chance of that Labour government.
Tessa Jowell
#81. Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.
Neil Young
#82. Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world ... of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
Karl Marx
#83. If there is a serious outbreak in the UK I doubt voters will risk a Labour government. Time to get serious ... Look at Diane Abbott's irresponsible comments on Ebola patients, Mili's open border policy. No. Way.
Louise Mensch
#84. But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
Alfred Marshall
#85. A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.
Clement Attlee
#86. I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.
Yayoi Kusama
#87. That's not hard work. It's just manual labour," Nagasawa said with finality. "The "hard work' I'm talking about is more self-directed and purposeful.
Haruki Murakami
#88. Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night's beloved in this earthly labour of the day.
Novalis
#89. The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
Lucy Powell
#90. To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.
Andrew Lansley
#92. It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
Lucy Powell
#93. God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.
Richard Sibbes
#94. We need a good strong opposition and I don't know whether it's any coincidence that we need Angela Eagle in Labour and we need Theresa May to lead the Conservative party, both of whom of course are women.
Anna Soubry
#95. Full and unhesitating implementation of the report's findings must now follow. I call upon the Labour Party to guarantee that there will be zero tolerance of antisemitism.
Ephraim Mirvis
#96. in this country, who's got the most guns - you and Lloyd and the Labour Party, or the Conservatives with the army and the police on their side?
Ken Follett
#97. Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the labour of the worthy man's whole life; and never were labour and zeal more absurdly wasted.
Walter Scott
#98. Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.
Arthur Scargill
#99. Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football
Anthony Burgess
#100. What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
Virginia Woolf
