#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

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

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#conscience #issue #labour #labour party #party

La femme ne peut être émancipée que lorsqu'elle prend part dans une grande mesure sociale à la production et n'est plus réclamée par le travail domestique que dans une mesure insignifiante. ↗

— Engels Friedrich

#gender-equality #labour #production #equality

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress. ↗

— John Burns

#labels #labour #less #men #persistent

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

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#again #ever #happen #i #just

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. ↗

— John Hume

#almost #called #civil #civil servant #dealing

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#becomes #contrivance #each #every #human