#labour

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

This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is inherent in working-class life. A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive role. He does not act, he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that ‘they’ will never allow him to do this, that, and the other. Once when I was hop-picking I asked the sweated pickers (they earn something under sixpence an hour) why they did not form a union. I was told immediately that ‘they’ would never allow it. Who were ‘they’? I asked. Nobody seemed to know, but evidently ‘they’ were omnipotent. ↗

— George Orwell

#labour #servility #trade-unions #wage-labour #working-class

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour. ↗

— James Spader

#alternatives #although #being #consider #especially

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

Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#back #change #come #decided #experiment

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ↗

— Adam Smith

#first #gold #labour #money #original

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

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#britain #consensus #economic #essentially #labour