Assuming Quote by Pope Leo XIII

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

— Anonymous

The paramount problem... is how to make this new form of property ownership a workable agent toward repeopleizing the proprietorship of the country's industries.…

— Peter S. Grosscup

All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would…

— Lysander Spooner

Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're…

— Noam Chomsky

“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn…

— Wendell Berry

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

— Pope Leo XIII

Increased public ownership of the economy should be structured to create more worker self-management and control.

— Owen Jones

Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The owners of labor, on the other hand, are being taught, by the most powerful and well-publicized examples, that the highest rewards are not…

— Louis O. Kelso

“Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— Thomas Jefferson

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their…

— Ludwig von Mises