Barbara Castle Quotes

Money is a mechanism for control.

The labor union in enforcing a high scale of wages brings about the distribution of wealth throughout the entire community.

If anyone says that American socialism isn't possible, point them toward the bowling shoe.

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

I like control.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

The World is governed too much.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding and wielding power.

Let him who will, be he economic tyrant or sordid mercenary, pit his strength against this mighty upsurge of human sentiment now being crystallized in the hearts of thirty million workers who clamor for the establishment of industrial democracy and for participation in its tangible fruits. He is a madman of a fool who believes that this river of human sentiment can be damned.

When labor is strong, America is strong.

The word to regulate implies in its nature full power over the thing to be regulated, it excludes, necessarily, the action of all others that would perform the same operation on the same thing.

Fellow workers, this is the Continental Congress of the working class. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working class in possession of economic power.

Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power -- therefore you have too much responsibility -- and you're a kind of dictator.

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.

For the working class of the world the choice is simple, either to take the organized political action necessary to introduce Socialism or to continue with capitalism. The one thing that cannot be had is to impose on the capitalist jungle some socially acceptable and satisfying wages policy.

Controlling capitalism has proved far more difficult than controlling anything else, because capitalism is based on the control of the many by the few—the reverse of the conventional definition of political democracy.

Politics is fate.