Essentials Quote by Roy Jenkins

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

Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today to buy,…

— Louis O. Kelso

“I should like to put before every one who is provided, from whatever source, with an income independent of their own exertions the following…

— Catherine Durning Whetham

“Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an income from…

— Martin Adams

“Equality works. Extreme inequality does not. Out of the grotesque opportunism that we’ve seen among owners of great wealth in the past ten years…

— David Cay Johnston

The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect.

— Guy Standing

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

— Michael Hudson

Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider privatization in…

— Chrystia Freeland

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of…

— Hilaire Belloc

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

— Thomas Jefferson

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made…

— Aristotle

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

— George H. W. Bush