“Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the highest life of society through the dignity of man and through the multiplicity of his action, in which multiplicity is life. Through well-divided property alone can the units of society react upon the State. Through it alone can a public opinion flourish. Only where the bulk of the cells are healthy can the whole organism thrive.” MenWellsStatesWholeEyeActionPoliticsOpinionEconomyEconomicHealthyHighestDignityPropertyCellsLiberalismThriveGoodsDividedOrganismsUnitsPublic OpinionMultiplicityEconomic Freedom Book:An Essay on the Restoration of Property Source: An Essay on the Restoration of Property
“There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?” WellsWisdomChoicesPoliticsEnjoyEconomySecurityMaterialsDignityClaimsWell BeingRangeLiberalismDependentLeisureOwnershipAutonomyMore To Life Author:Louis O. Kelso
“Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.” HumansTwoIdeasRealWisdomPoliticsEconomyPersonalityDignityBasesPhilosophicalInfiniteConvictionLiberalismMetaphysicalFiniteInsistenceGroundingHuman Personality Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.” HumansMeanChildrenSelfWisdomHandsPoliticsIndividualDecisionResultsEconomyWifeEconomicSecurityHusbandConflictSelf ImprovementDignityDollarsImprovementScalesPsychologicalLiberalismHostUnjustDiminishMeasurementEconomic JusticeEconomic SecurityHusband Wife Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood; and to that right corresponds the fundamental obligation to grant private property, as far as possible, to all.” HumansPersonsUsePoliticsNaturalEconomyDemandDignityFoundationFundamentalsPropertyObligationLiberalismGoodsGrantsPrivate PropertyLivelihood Author:Pope Pius XI
“We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.” NeedsHumansIndividualEconomyHonestMaterialsDignityProsperityIndispensableHuman DignityIndividual FreedomFree Economy Author:Margaret Thatcher
“Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.” HumansWould BeHuman BeingsCompanyRolesEconomyCreativeCapacityConcernedDignityCreatorProductivityCirclesMetamorphosisMarket EconomyFull Circle Author:Joseph Beuys
“Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It indicates self-denial and imparts strength of character. It produces a well-regulated mind.” WantMindWellsSelfCharacterSufferingEconomyProduceWasteDignityDenialImpartStrength Of CharacterSelf-denial Author:Morarji Desai