119 Quotes About Labour

The real determinant of society is hidden behind the state and the economy: it is the way in which our everyday activity is organised, the subordination of our doing to the dictates of abstract labour, that is, of value, money, profit. It is this abstraction which is, after all, the very existence of the state. If we want to change society, we must stop the subordination of our activity to abstract labour, do something else.

Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those numbers on which important calculations or inferences depend. They have no idea of the patience shown by a Berzelius in determining atomic weights; by a Regnault in determining coefficients of expansion; or by a Joule in determining the mechanical equivalent of heat.

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.

We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives.

Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.