Collectives Quote by Franco Modigliani

The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.

— David Packard

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing,…

— Barry Schwartz

It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in…

— Pope John Paul II

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

— Sherrod Brown

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants…

— Thomas Paine

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

— Bob Geldof

“Keeping people in jobs they are not suited for is terrible for them because it allows them to live in a false reality while…

— Ray Dalio

I think people's feeling the need to be more dependent on others is caused more by the lack of good-paying jobs and by today's…

— Marty Nemko

People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind of long-term…

— Stewart D. Friedman

“We tend to assign a lesser social value to those whose doing cannot be enslaved into a given output. We should look to them…

— Cole Arthur Riley

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or…

— Dennis Prager

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded…

— Lascelles Abercrombie