#labour

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #labour




My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.


Peter Straub


#did #enjoying #every #first #government

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.


Charles E. Wilson


#directly #fluctuate #labour #materials #prices

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.


Lucy Powell


#government #indication #labour #least #satisfied

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.


William Whitehead


#alone #ambition #best #employed #enjoyed

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.


Diane Abbott


#child #i #labour #only #public

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.


James Madison


#any #apt #classes #fill #good

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.


J.M. Coetzee


#gardening #grace #labour #food

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


#been #cambridge #chose #continue #disagree

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.


Henry Charles Carey


#consists #determine #dispose #employed #exchanged

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'


Brian Eno


#against #anyone #because #century #child