Contribution Quote by Pope John Paul II

Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into…

— Samora Machel

It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously…

— Anonymous

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the…

— Libreria Editrice Vaticana

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of…

— Marvin Harris

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division…

— Ludwig von Mises

Work done by human beings for human beings.

— William Lethaby

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of…

— John Dewey

“Society and the individual are thus interdependent. The one owes its existence to the other. Society owes its existence to human nature, and especially…

— Karl R. Popper

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is…

— Pope Pius XI

“The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and…

— Melba Pattillo Beals

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour…

— Albert Einstein