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“[Labour has] voted through a hard Brexit and chosen to be neither fish nor fowl on the biggest issue to face our country for a generation.”
Tim Farron (born 1970) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: General Election 2017: Labour's 'day one' pledge to EU nationals BBC News (25 April 2017)
“When Britain leaves the European Union, free movement of labour and people will then come to an end”
John McDonnell (born 1951) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EU referendum result must be respected, says John McDonnell BBC News (1 July 2016)
“This means we must not try to re-fight the referendum or push for a second vote and if Article 50 needs to be triggered in Parliament Labour will not seek to block or delay it.”
John McDonnell (born 1951) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Government is failing UK workers over Brexit - McDonnell BBC News (15 November 2016)
“The values of Catholicism are the inherent values of the Labour Party and the inherent values of socialism...”
John McDonnell (born 1951) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Tablet (21 February 2019)
“We can't say to people 'Labour wants you to share in the running of your workplace, your community and your environment, but we don't trust you to have the final say over Brexit.'”
John McDonnell (born 1951) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Labour Party conference: McDonnell promises 32-hour working week BBC News (23 September 2019)
“[Labour is] clear that Britain is better off in Europe”
Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest (born 1967) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EU referendum: Labour urges its voters not to back Brexit BBC News (10 June 2016)
“And you know, woe betide politicians that don't listen to what voters tell them. You know, I think a future Europe will have to look at things like the free movement of labour rules.”
Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest (born 1967) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Labour's Tom Watson: EU free movement rules must change BBC News (14 June 2016)
“The Irish Labour Movement has no place for the cries of Fascism or Communism that plagues the world today.”
Timothy Quill (1901–1960) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cork Examiner (1936)
“We are told that the last vestige of British royalty are gone, but the people who told us most about kings and oaths were the people who summoned the Dáil to put through an Act of Parliament to recognise the new King of England, and the only people who were against it were the Labour Party”
Timothy Quill (1901–1960) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cork Examiner (1937)
“The simple means of making the race frugal is to supply the wants of no man and to leave every man the produce of his own labour.”
Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now we know from all history, that unjust appropriation, that every long-continued attempt in one class of men to escape from the necessity of labour imposed on our race, that every infringment of a man's right to use, consume, and enjoy his own produce, has ever been attended with disastrous consequences. It is a violation of a natural law which never passes unpunished.”
Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Slave-owners and rich men, among a crowd of slave-descended famishing labourers, lead probably a more anxious and toilsome life in protecting their property, and in enforcing obedience to their orders, than the slaves whose labour they extort.”
Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The labour movement is a foundational movement in the making of our nation.”
Yemi Osinbajo (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Optimism with regard to labour as an agency of has been replaced by pessimism that sees little prospect of workers acting on their own behalf.”
Neethi Padmanabhan first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Globalisation Lived Locally: A Labour Geography Perspective on Control, Conflict and Response among Workers in Kerala, 2012, at
“The workers must be given tangible proof that Labour administration means something different from capitalist administration, and in a nutshell this means diverting wealth from wealthy ratepayers to the poor.”
George Lansbury (1859–1940) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poplar and the Labour Party: a Defence of Poplarism", Labour Monthly (June 1922), quoted in John Shepherd "A Life on the Left: George Lansbury (1859—1940): A Case Study in Recent Labour Biography", Labour History, No. 8…
“The spirit of the youth movement still inspires many of the young officers in the labour camps and fills many students with the belief that they are digging the foundation of a new German Socialism, not of the town and the machine but of the fields and the spade.”
Richard Crossman (1907–1974) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: BBC radio broadcast after his visit to Germany (2 May 1934), quoted in Anthony Howard, Crossman: The Pursuit of Power (1990), p. 42
“As to the Bill itself, it only empowers rich Foreigners to purchase Lands, and to carry on a free and extensive Commerce, by importing all Sorts of Merchandise and Raw Materials, allowed by Law to be imported, for the Employment of our own People, and then Exporting the Surplus of the Produce, Labour, and Manufactures of our own Country, upon cheaper and better Terms than is done at present.”
Josiah Tucker (1713–1799) first seen 1753 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753; A Letter to a Friend Concerning Naturalizations (1753), p. 6
“Gradualism, in this sense, however much it appeals to the first thoughts of the electorate, fails because in the event it is unable to deliver the goods. It may put a Labour Government into office; but it will also ensure its subsequent discredit.”
G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Some Essentials of Socialist Propaganda: A Tract For the Times (1932), p. 7
“Methods of art are the product of the patient labour of generations.”
Hubert Parry (1848–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is nothing if not ironic that the man that the Labour Party will most likely chose to save the day in the face of the relentless and inexorable electoral onslaught of Sinn Féin is someone who delights in his own nomme de guerre, AK47. Alan Kelly not only likes his soubriquet but relishes in his characterisation of someone who shoots from the hip, takes no prisoners and gets things done.”
Alan Kelly (born 1975) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Laois Today, 2021
“The Labour leader may have mellowed with age but the TD once dubbed AK47 still has targets.”
Alan Kelly (born 1975) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Times (Ireland Edition), 2021
“The Belgians are setting about the task of combating the shortage of labour with almost Teutonic thoroughness and far-sightedness.”
Hiram Bingham III (1875–1956) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The visit of King Albert I to the Belgian Congo in 1928. Between propaganda and reality.
“Speaking generally, it may be said that the authorities of the Union Minière are in advance of the Mining Companies in this Territory [Rhodesia] in the care and attention they give to recruited labour.”
Hiram Bingham III (1875–1956) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The visit of King Albert I to the Belgian Congo in 1928. Between propaganda and reality.
“Glossing over his cruelties and barbaric deeds, only to sound politically correct or labour under a sad misapprehension that whitewashing these crimes would somehow magically maintain social cohesion and national unity is being extremely treacherous and intellectually dishonest.”
Vikram Sampath wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who builds a house for himself takes great pains to make it commodious, airy, and handsome, and says: “I labour and give myself a great deal of trouble about this house, because I shall have to live in it all my life.” And yet how little is the house of eternity thought of!”
Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787) said by 1787 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are going to fight to save the party and by God we think we can. We are going to start fighting for a Labour Party worthy of the name.”
Shirley Williams (1930–2021) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to a fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool (1980), quoted in Mervyn Jones, Michael Foot (1994), p. 457
“David has had the idea that the voters to try and win are defecting Tories... I personally have always held that we must try to replace the Labour Party.”
Shirley Williams (1930–2021) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to Hugo Young (8 August 1984), quoted in Hugo Young, The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics – Off the Record, ed. Ion Trewin (2008), p. 206
“The old ways of life are steadily losing their hold. Labour revolts. Culture revolts too. They are all subconsciously reaching for something different and better. They realize that science and culture, education such as it is, orthodox religion such as it is, have not saved men from a process of self impoverization and mutual extermination in a variety of forms.”
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The question of labour being cheaper in one country than in another, and of different standards of living which puzzle economists so much to-day, need not exist at this future period.”
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always say that not all judges are corrupt there are some of them who labour night and day to give up their best and to make sure that judgments are based on evidence received and the applicable laws.”
Folake Solanke (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“BC Fruit Works is part of our government’s Tree Fruit Industry Stabilization initiative as we look at ways to co-ordinate various agencies through an industry labour strategy”
Lana Popham (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Terrible tricks should be done to conscientious objectors. Concentration camp, half a year, forced labour.”
Pekka Siitoin (1944–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The proletarian who sells his labouring power to the capitalist is paid a wage which corresponds only to a part of the time of labour he spends, the value of the rest, the surplus value, being pocketed by the employer. This viewpoint eloquently proves that all the wealth of the bourgeoisie is made up of the surplus value produced by the proletariat and appropriated by the capitalists.”
Trường Chinh (1907–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The creation in Laos of highly productive socialist economy, based on socialist production relations and large-scale industry, entails the formation of a large-scale national economy equipped with the latest technology, with a well-developed and rationally organised division of social labour, and with a high level of productivity able to promote the continuing expansion of production.”
Kaysone Phomvihane (1920–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[The Labour party is] a mere detail of the Israelis' attempt to impose their will all over the world.”
David Miller (sociologist) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Building the Campaign for Free Speech" (13 February 2021; YouTube video of an online conference dated 17 February 2021), as cited in Anthony Julius "Willed Ignorance: Reflections on academic free speech, occasioned by t…
“I deeply regret, and apologise for, my recent choice of words when speaking about how the Labour party has responded to the ongoing fight against antisemitism inside of our party. I was trying to stress how much the party has done to tackle antisemitism.”
Chris Williamson (politician) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Apologises for his comments in Sheffield, cited in "Labour splits exposed as MP is suspended over antisemitism remarks" The Guardian (27 February 2019).
“Any measure calculated to encourage virtue and subdue vice must be the wisest and best policy of a nation. In new countries there is a dignity in labour and a self-supporting woman is alike respected and respectable. Why should the door of hope be closed on those poor women, and why refuse them the means of attaining that independence in other countries which they are debarred from in this?”
Charlotte Stoker (1818–1901) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society in Ireland at the meeting after 1863-05 urging that there was need to educate woman who had become destitute and needed to go to the workhouse without money to emig…
“The truth is that the Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now. They have bullied the Labour Party, they have bullied our institutions, and now they have bullied our country into submission.”
Suella Braverman (born 1980) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Islamists are bullying Britain into submission", The Telegraph (22 February 2024).
“The Labour leaders are men whose doctrine requires them to make the state stronger, and whose good British instinct is to make the state as weak as possible.”
Élie Halévy (1870–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Era of Tyrannies (1938; trans. edn. 1967), p. 198
“I dedicate this to every mother, may God make you strong enough to survive and enjoy the fruit of your labour.”
Helen Paul (born 1983) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Helen Paul appreciates women. (April 2019)
“There is no challenge, obstacle, or difficulty that we cannot overcome or surmount if we imbibe the nature of Christ who said in Matthew 11: 28; come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Oluremi Tinubu (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I played Emmanuella in glamour girls the movie and I am here to tell you our labour of love glamour girls is still showing on Netflix and trending worldwide.”
Sharon Ooja (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to be a force to reckon with not just as an actor but also as a producer. I want to do quality stuff and be an employer of labour so that I can change perceptions people have about the industry.”
Judith Audu wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Labour of love.”
Sha Sha (born 1994) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sha sha describe her EP as a labour of love,(June 24, 2020)
Also quoted by: The Bible
“In a world undergoing rapid technological evolution, where industries and labour markets are being reshaped, it becomes imperative to empower our youth with required skills to tap into opportunities for their employment.”
Jeannette Bayisenge (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This was a situation where somebody acted completely out of character and, ordinarily, with the labour law and our HR policy, this person should have gone through the disciplinary process which would have probably led to an exit or a very difficult end in terms of parting.”
Lina Higiro (born 1979) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A situation which put me, as a leader, in a place of absolute lack of direction, lack of knowledge, Lina Higiro said (All Africa, 6 January 2022)
“There are certain things that if you were doing them for other countries, you would have been far better than what you are now but with Nigeria it’s like an advanced labour issue.”
Blessing Okagbare (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“LGBT+ Labour now seem to hate my guts and I feared they’d have a massive go at me at conference [...] The people who threaten me I don’t think are actually likely to harm me. They just say it often and very loudly.”
Rosie Duffield (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being shouted down in the chamber by Labour men who clearly don't want women to speak up for our rights to single-sex spaces. How very progressive.”
Rosie Duffield (born 1971) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet quoted in "Scotland gender reform bill: Rosie Duffield heckled in Commons for supporting law veto" The Times (17 January 2023).
“Someone with far-above-average wealth choosing to keep the Conservatives’ two-child limit to benefit payments which entrenches children in poverty, while inexplicably accepting expensive personal gifts of designer suits and glasses costing more than most of these people can grasp — this is entirely undeserving of holding the title of Labour prime minister.”
Rosie Duffield (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source