Quotes with labour

  • 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.

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  • Benjamin Franklin Labour is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Alfred Marshall All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
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  • Anthony Trollope As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Scargill 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
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Barbara Amiel Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Anne Campbell Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Barry Eichengreen For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Anne Campbell I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Theresa May I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy 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
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • James Montgomery Labour is but refreshment from repose.
    Greenland (1827) canto 2
    James Montgomery
    British poet (1771 - 1854)
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  • John Ruskin Labour may be shortly divided into positive and negative labour: positive, that which produces life; negative, that which produces death.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Adam Smith 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.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • John Ruskin Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Boris Johnson Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it.
    The Spectator 15 April 2000
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • William Cowper Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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