Capable Quote by John Stuart Mill

Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction,…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

This new economy that's just emerged has a new central economic actor. It's not the worker, the person who produces, nor the person who…

— Paul Saffo

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure…

— Ivan Illich

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in…

— Edmund Burke

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the…

— Charles Babbage

The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated.…

— Henry Hazlitt

“The anarchists cannot consider, like the collectivists, that a remuneration which would be proportionate to the hours of labour spent by each person in…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“No social legislation can ever be final. Economic conditions are in a constant state of fluctuation, and periods of tranquility are followed by renewed…

— Joseph Casper Husslein

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society.…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the…

— Morihei Ueshiba

“the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development of the…

— Karl Polanyi

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable…

— John Maynard Keynes