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  • I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they are not to be charged with having spent their time in vain; their example contributed to inspire emulation, and their miscarriage taught others the way to success.

    Samuel Johnson (1889). “Select Essays”
  • The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

  • The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

    BBC's "Question Time", September 18, 2008.
  • All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.

    Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.25, Faber & Faber
  • If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

  • In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

    Numbers   Mps   Trends  
    "Despite Sarah Palin, the glass ceiling for women in politics remains" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.
  • Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

    "Electing the Conservatives is a risk we must not take" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2009.
  • It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

  • 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.

    Party   Leader   Today  
    " Labour MPs prepare for leadership contest after Corbyn loses confidence vote" by Anushka Asthana, Rajeev Syal, Jessica Elgot, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2016.
  • In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

    Work   Sweat   Light  
    Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.153, Library of America
  • Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

    Crush   Army   Creating  
    Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”
  • It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

  • There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

    Party   Recovery   People  
    Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com
  • The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

    "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.
  • It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

    Party   Believe   Past  
    "Interview: Diane Abbott, Candidate for British Labour Party Leader". Interview with Kim Pearson, www.blogher.com.
  • Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength Whether in oxen or in men, we dull The edges of our ploughshares, and in return Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed, And so today the farmer shakes his head, More and more often sighing that his work, The labour of his hands, has come to naught.

    Work   Mean   Men  
  • My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

    Strong   Winning   Views  
    "Meet the new Labour adviser: Tony Blair" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2012.
  • At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the late Conservative years - the end of Thatcher/start of Major and certainly continued throughout New Labour and continuing now - that new is necessarily better, so there is this neophilia which isn't the vanguard of progress, it's just the vanguard of the construction industry enjoying itself.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  • Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

    Emile Durkheim (1973). “Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society”, p.110, University of Chicago Press
  • The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

    Party   Views   Body  
  • All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

    Eye   Air   Research  
  • Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment.

  • All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."

    Summer   July   Heaven  
  • Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

    John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.583
  • Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

    Children   Book   Winning  
    John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.468
  • Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

    "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. April 24, 2011.
  • Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.

    Song   Strong   Weak  
    Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.199
  • Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.

  • As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

    Men   Land   Doe  
    John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.27, Courier Corporation
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