Labour isn't working.

-Anonymous
  Used by the Conservative Party in its general election campaign, referring to high unemployment under the then Labour Government.

That vast portion†of the working-class which, raw and half-developed has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding- place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes,breaking what it likesötothisvast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Culture and  Anarchy, ch.3.

A feeling generally exists that the condition and disposition of the Working Class is a rather ominous matter at present; that something ought to be said, something ought to be done, in regard to it.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Chartism, ch.1.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

-Coleman, Ornette
  On the music of his band Prime Time. Quoted in  John Litweiler The Freedom Principle (1984).

   People mutht be amuthed. They can't be alwayth a learning, nor yet they can't be alwayth a working, they an't made for it.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  Mr Sleary. Hard Times, bk.3, ch.8.

That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

-Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton
  Art-nonsense and Other Essays,'Slavery and Freedom'.

It is upon those who say that it is necessary to exclude forty-nine fiftieths of the working classes [from the vote] toshowcause, and Iventuretosay that every manwho is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  House of Commons,11 May.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep fromworking and yet feel you've done something.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Letter to F Scott Fitzgerald,1  Jul.

Anti-classic art, if it may even be called an art, is merely theart oftheidle.It isthe doctrine ofthosewho desireto produce without working, to know without learning.

-Ingres,Jean Auguste Dominique
  Quoted in Henri Delaborde Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870).

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  'The Bravery of the English Common Soldier', in The British Magazine,  Jan.

   Goodbye Mr Zanuck. It certainly has been a pleasure working for16th Century Fox.

-Renoir,Jean
On leaving Hollywood. Attributed.

The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.

-Smiles, Samuel
  Self-Help, ch.10.