L Quotes
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“Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?”
“Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying.
[Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]”
“Labour completely accepts and recognises the vote to leave the EU. The question is what is the agenda for that process and that needs to be held to account in Parliament now and that means it needs to be open to a vote.”
“Labour day is a great American holiday that people
celebrate by going out and buying products
made in China”
“Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust”
“Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.”
“Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.”
“Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.”
“Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.”
Source: Marx: Selected Writings
“Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.”
Source: Socialism of My Conception
“Labour is an act of living.”
“Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.”
Source: The Tower
“LABOUR is effort, while ART is effortless! What are you?””
“Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.”
Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing
“Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and drink and sleep, to become a worker... He is nothing, he can be nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfil nothing, without working.”
“Labour is priceless, not gold.”
Source: Socialism of My Conception
“Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.”
“Labour is the purgatory of the erring.”
“Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.”
Source: Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
“Labour is the source of every blessing.”
Source: Three Hundred Æsop's Fables
“Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.”
Source: Hymns
“Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.”
“Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.”
“Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.”
Source: Character
“Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.”
“Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.”
“Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.”
Source: The works ...
“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.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”
“Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.”
“Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.”
Source: Collected Works
“LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.”
“Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.”
Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
“Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.”
“Labourism was to be the bete noire of the Party, hated as much as the capitalist system itself. Its growth was to lead to the hardening of Party attitudes almost to the point where even the wish to improve everyday conditions was considered iniquitous. The resentment was heated by the fact that many of the rising Labour leaders had been fellow members of the Social Democratic Federation and once professed the revolution.No words were strong enough for the Party's contempt. In the the Socialist Standard they were 'fakirs', a strong allusion to self-seeking piety, and on the platforms 'Labour bleeders',...”
“Labradors are angelic creatures.”
“Labākais veikals ir godīgums.”
“Lac Sainte-Claire is itself a creature of the wild, a world where the synthetic and the organic commingle. At this early hour, it looks like a sheet of quicksilver being shaken by invisible hands. Then, as morning brings heat and light, plastic objects, immersed steel structures, and an oily sheen become visible on its surface. Large ships advance in cavernous silence, waterfowl rise above the horizon.”
Source: The Future
“Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.”
“Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only because it works by metaphor and metonymy: it is also because, like language itself for the post-structuralists, it is composed less of signs — stable meanings — than of signifiers. If you dream of a horse, it is not immediately obvious what this signifies: it may have many contradictory meanings, may be just one of a whole chain of signifiers with equally multiple meanings. The image of the horse, that is to say, is not a sign in Saussure’s sense - it does not have one determined signified tied neatly to its tail - but is a signifier which may be attached to many different signifieds, and which may itself bear the traces of the other signifiers which surround it. (I was not aware, when I wrote the above sentence, of the word-play involved in ‘horse’ and ‘tail’: one signifier interacted with another against my conscious intention.) The unconscious is just a continual movement and activity of signifiers, whose signifieds are often inaccessible to us because they are repressed. This is why Lacan speaks of the unconscious as a ‘sliding of the signified beneath the signifier’, as a constant fading and evaporation of meaning, a bizarre ‘modernist’ text which is almost unreadable and which will certainly never yield up its final secrets to interpretation.”
Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“Lacan destaca que é importante fazer a distinção entre a imagem narcísica i(a) e o que se desprende em sua própria constituição, a, já que este último está sempre velado, mascarado atrás do primeiro. Para ele, o melancólico necessita passar através de sua própria imagem para atingir esse objeto que o transcende e para dar-se conta de que sua queixa de ser nada em verdade não se dirige à sua imagem especular, ou seja, não é uma queixa de má aparência, porém de “ser o último dos últimos”. E não apenas de “ser”, mas também de “ter”, na medida em que a auto-acusação implica o ter sido arruinado. Lacan fala, ainda, em suicídio do objeto. Ele aponta que o objeto se constituiu, mas que por alguma razão desapareceu. Em suas auto-acusações, o melancólico está inteiramente no simbólico, assinala ele no seminário A transferência.”
Source: Depressão e melancolia (PAP - Psicanálise)
“Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“Lacan, por sua vez, reinterpretará no seminário sobre a angústia as palavras freudianas da seguinte maneira: na neurose de angústia, esta aparece na medida em que o orgasmo se desliga do campo da demanda ao Outro. Considera que Freud, ao situar no coitus interruptus a fonte da angústia, colocou em destaque que esse afeto é promovido em sua função essencial justamente ali onde a intensificação orgástica é desvinculada do exercício do instrumento fálico. Ou seja, o sujeito pode chegar à ejaculação, mas é uma ejaculação do lado de fora, o que exclui o desejo do Outro. A angústia é provocada pelo fato de o instrumento fálico, apesar de viabilizar o gozo, ser posto fora do jogo do desejo. Nesses primeiros estudos freudianos já se vê indicada a necessidade de distinção entre gozo e desejo, um dos pontos fundamentais dos estudos de Lacan sobre a angústia.”
Source: Angústia (PAP - Psicanálise)
“Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.”
Source: Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition
“Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.”
“Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always.”
Source: Miles from Ordinary
“Lacey," he began in a voice so smooth it practically dripped. "Are you a magician?"
I crossed my arms, raising an eyebrow. "No. Why?"
"Because every time I look at you," he continued, lowering his voice as he inched even closer, "everyone else disappears.”
Source: Shifter Hearts
“Lacey.." If it was supposed to be a protest it was a weak one. It was more groan than warning”
Source: Some Girls Do
“Lacey shrugged bashfully. “Do you think I’m superficial?” “Well, yeah.” I thought of myself standing outside Becca’s bedroom, hoping she’d take her shirt off. “But so am I,” I added. “So is everyone.”
Source: Paper Towns