quotes about Labour
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Genius can never despise labour.
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
-- Alfred MarshallSource : Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
-- Anthony TrollopeSource : Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.66, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
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Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.
-- David HarveySource : "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 2006 VERSO Edition,
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Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.
-- David HarveySource : "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.
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There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
-- David RicardoSource : David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.31
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If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.
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The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.
-- Francis Maude -
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The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.
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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding
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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
-- Havelock Ellis -
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I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
-- Henri RousseauSource : Henri Rousseau, Roger Shattuck, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France) (1985). “Henri Rousseau: essays”, Museum of Modern Art ; Boston : Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books
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The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour
-- James ConnollySource : James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.145, Pluto Press
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
-- John Milton -
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
-- Karl Barth -
An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.
-- Karl Marx -
The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .
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I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.
-- Lucy Powell -
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There is no excellence in archery without great labour.
-- Maurice Thompson -
I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.
-- Michael Foot -
I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
-- Robert Herrick -
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.
-- William Stanley JevonsSource : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.217
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Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.
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