#labour

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined. ↗

— David Ricardo

#capital #combined #invested #labour #machinery

C'est par le travail que la femme a conquis sa dignité d'être humain; mais ce fut une conquête singulièrement dure et lente. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#gender-equality #labour #equality

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

#better #difficult #easy #governing #government

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#beliefs #belong #democratic #goes #i

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#become #collective #consumed #democrats #labour

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#care #government #happy #labours #must

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#economic #face #facing #get #global

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#common #common cause #day #factory #factory worker

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#increased #indefinitely #instruments #labour #may

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term. ↗

— Clare Short

#chance #good #good chance #government #keep